Government and community partnership in reducing air pollution exposure

政府和社区合作减少空气污染暴露

• 批准号: 558316-2020
• 负责人: Hatzopoulou, Marianne
• 金额: $ 3.18万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=706737
• 关键词: Government; community; partnership; reducing; air

Urban air quality raises environmental justice issues when minority or vulnerable communities suffer disproportionate exposures. The proposed initiative will develop a campus-community partnership to promote relevant public policy. This entails 1) building community capacity so that the community can become a partner in the development of an innovative air quality research program and 2) developing multi-stakeholder partnerships by reaching beyond the community, to planners, policy-makers, and representatives from the constituency offices of all levels of government. The proposed study engages the Bathurst Quay Neighborhood Association (BQNA), the City of Toronto, PortsToronto, and a diverse team of researchers at the University of Toronto and the Southern Ontario Center for Atmospheric Aerosol Research (SOCAAR). The SOCAAR team is well positioned to initiate and study community partnerships in air pollution, owing to a track record of various team members who have engaged with communities, the non-profit sector, and local governments. Research partnerships in air quality have made great strides in terms of the development of unique and novel methods for measuring, characterizing, and modelling air quality. In order to accelerate the implementation of these novel approaches in policy appraisal, at the local and national level, campus-community partnerships with government participation are key. At the level of Canada, such partnerships will change policy practices much faster than the traditional "knowledge dissemination from research to policy model". When policy-makers actually have the opportunity to participate in the air quality research and its implementation in a local context, the uptake of novel air quality analysis in policy appraisal at the Canadian level is accelerated.

当少数或弱势社区遭受不成比例的暴露时，城市空气质量会引发环境正义问题。拟议的倡议将建立校园社区合作伙伴关系，以促进相关的公共政策。这需要1）建立社区能力，以便社区可以成为创新的空气质量研究计划的合作伙伴，以及2）通过超越社区，向计划者，政策制定者和来自的代表来发展多方利益相关者的伙伴关系各级政府的选区办公室。 拟议的研究与巴瑟斯特码头协会（BQNA），多伦多市，港口港口市，多伦多大学和安大略省南部大气气溶胶研究中心（SOCAAR）的多元化研究人员组成。由于与社区，非营利部门和地方政府互动的各个团队成员的记录，Socaar团队有能力在空气污染中建立和研究社区伙伴关系。 空气质量的研究合作伙伴关系在开发独特和新颖的方法来衡量，表征和建模空气质量方面取得了长足的进步。为了加速在地方和国家一级的政策评估中实施这些新颖的方法，与政府参与的校园社区合作伙伴关系至关重要。在加拿大一级，这种伙伴关系将比传统的“从研究到政策模型”的传统“知识传播”更快地改变政策实践。当政策制定者实际上有机会参与空气质量研究及其在当地情况下的实施时，在加拿大一级的政策评估中对新型空气质量分析的吸收就会加速。