TY - JOUR
T1 - Minding the gap
T2 - socio-demographic factors linked to the perception of environmental pollution, water harvesting infrastructure, and gardening characteristics
AU - Moses, Arthur
AU - McLain, Jean E.T.
AU - Kilungo, Aminata
AU - Root, Robert A.
AU - Abrell, Leif
AU - Buxner, Sanlyn
AU - Sandoval, Flor
AU - Foley, Theresa
AU - Jones, Miriam
AU - Ramírez-Andreotta, Mónica D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank all Project Harvest participants for their time and the co-generation of data. We would like to thank all the promotoras and those not listed as co-authors, Margaret Dewey, Lisa Ochoa, Palmira Henriquez, Aviva O’Neil, Imelda Cortez, and Armida Boneo for their facilitation in participant recruitment, training, and ongoing commitment to the project and community. Special thank you to program coordinator/lab manager, Shana Sandhaus for support of multiple project activities which enabled this research. We thank Ann Marie Wolf and the entire Sonora Environmental Research Institute, Inc for their partnership and essential role in Project Harvest. We would like to acknowledge Maria Del Rocío Estrella Sanchez for translation of the surveys and responses. Finally, we would like to thank our anonymous reviewers for helping to improve the paper.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank all Project Harvest participants for their time and the co-generation of data. We would like to thank all the promotoras and those not listed as co-authors, Margaret Dewey, Lisa Ochoa, Palmira Henriquez, Aviva O’Neil, Imelda Cortez, and Armida Boneo for their facilitation in participant recruitment, training, and ongoing commitment to the project and community. Special thank you to program coordinator/lab manager, Shana Sandhaus for support of multiple project activities which enabled this research. We thank Ann Marie Wolf and the entire Sonora Environmental Research Institute, Inc for their partnership and essential role in Project Harvest. We would like to acknowledge Maria Del Rocío Estrella Sanchez for translation of the surveys and responses. Finally, we would like to thank our anonymous reviewers for helping to improve the paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - With the ongoing need for water conservation, the American Southwest has worked to increase harvested rainwater efforts to meet municipal needs. Concomitantly, environmental pollution is prevalent, leading to concerns regarding the quality of harvested rainwater. Project Harvest, a co-created community science project, was initiated with communities that neighbor sources of pollution. To better understand how a participant’s socio-demographic factors affect home characteristics and rainwater harvesting infrastructure, pinpoint gardening practices, and determine participant perception of environmental pollution, a 145-question “Home Description Survey” was administered to Project Harvest participants (n = 167) by project promotoras (community health workers). Race/ethnicity and community were significantly associated (p < 0.05) with participant responses regarding proximity to potential sources of pollution, roof material, water harvesting device material, harvesting device capacity, harvesting device age, garden amendments, supplemental irrigation, and previous contaminant testing. Further, the study has illuminated the idiosyncratic differences in how underserved communities perceive environmental pollution and historical past land uses in their community. We propose that the collection of such data will inform the field on how to tailor environmental monitoring efforts and results for constituent use, how community members may alter activities to reduce environmental hazard exposure, and how future studies can be designed to meet the needs of environmentally disadvantaged communities.
AB - With the ongoing need for water conservation, the American Southwest has worked to increase harvested rainwater efforts to meet municipal needs. Concomitantly, environmental pollution is prevalent, leading to concerns regarding the quality of harvested rainwater. Project Harvest, a co-created community science project, was initiated with communities that neighbor sources of pollution. To better understand how a participant’s socio-demographic factors affect home characteristics and rainwater harvesting infrastructure, pinpoint gardening practices, and determine participant perception of environmental pollution, a 145-question “Home Description Survey” was administered to Project Harvest participants (n = 167) by project promotoras (community health workers). Race/ethnicity and community were significantly associated (p < 0.05) with participant responses regarding proximity to potential sources of pollution, roof material, water harvesting device material, harvesting device capacity, harvesting device age, garden amendments, supplemental irrigation, and previous contaminant testing. Further, the study has illuminated the idiosyncratic differences in how underserved communities perceive environmental pollution and historical past land uses in their community. We propose that the collection of such data will inform the field on how to tailor environmental monitoring efforts and results for constituent use, how community members may alter activities to reduce environmental hazard exposure, and how future studies can be designed to meet the needs of environmentally disadvantaged communities.
KW - Citizen science
KW - Climate change
KW - Community science
KW - Environmental justice
KW - Environmental perception
KW - Rainwater harvesting
KW - Socio-demographic data
KW - Vulnerable populations
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U2 - 10.1007/s13412-022-00769-7
DO - 10.1007/s13412-022-00769-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131551134
SN - 2190-6483
VL - 12
SP - 594
EP - 610
JO - Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
JF - Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
IS - 3
ER -