USA||Robeson County Cooperative for Sustainable Development;
Greensboro;
USA||Lumber River United Way;
Maine;
USA||Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering;
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering;
USA||Department of Sociology and Anthropology;
and Sustainability;
Norman;
USA||Center for Geospatial Analytics;
AZ USA;
Environment;
Department of Parks;
Tucson;
NC USA;
USA||Department of Geography;
University of Oklahoma;
Stanford University;
Lumberton;
USA||Public Schools of Robeson County;
USA;
NC;
Lumberton NC USA;
NC State University;
Recreation and Tourism Management;
USA||Indian Child Welfare Act Court – Pima County;
USA||Center for Applied Social Research;
2800 Faucette Drive;
Raleigh;
Stanford;
Portland;
California;
Oklahoma;
USA||Linnean Solutions;
关键词：
Social-ecological;
Transdisciplinary;
Multiple hazards;
Flood disaster;
North Carolina USA;
Hazard;
期刊名称：
The Science of the total environment
i s s n：
0048-9697
年卷期：
2024 年
907 卷
Jan.10 期
页 码：
167577.1-167577.12
页 码：
摘 要：
Flood disasters can induce the mass transport of soils and sediments. This has the potential to distribute contaminantsand present novel combinations to new locations – including residential neighborhoods. Even whensoil contaminants cannot be directly attributed to the disaster, data on bacterial and heavy metal(loids) canfacilitate an environmentally just recovery by enabling reconstruction decisions that fill data gaps to minimizefuture exposure. These data-gathering interventions may be especially useful in poor, rural, and racially diverse communities where there is a high probability of exposure to multiple hazards and a potential dependency on thefinancial resources of disaster aid as a means of reducing chronic exposures to other environmental pollutants. Atthe same time, entering these post-disasters spaces is ethically complex. To acknowledge this complexity, wepilot a framework for work that gathers social-ecological hazard information while retaining a fair-mindedapproach to transdisciplinary work. Assembled a transdisciplinary team to recruit participants from 90 householdssubjected to flooding in the southeastern US. Participating households agreed to interviews to elicit floodexperience and environmental health concerns, soil sampling for fecal bacteria (E. coli) and soil sampling forselected heavy metals and metalloids (Pb, As, Cd) at their flooded residence. Soil sampling found a wide range ofE. coli concentrations in soil (0.4–1115.7 CFU/ dry gram). Heavy metal(loid)s were detected at most residences(As 97.9 %; Ca 25.5 %; Pb 100 %). Individually, heavy metal(loid) concentrations did not exceed regulatorythresholds. Hazard, risk, and mitigation concerns expressed during interviews reveal that integrated humannatureconcepts complicate common understandings of how hazard perceptibility (smell, sight, touch, and information)affects research-action spaces. Qualitative analysis of interviews and field notes revealed that soilrelatedhazards addressed by our biophysical protocols were less salient than changes with direct causal associationswith flooding. We conclude by discussing the potential for the social-ecological hazard information thatis fair-minded and transdisciplinary (SHIFT) framework to advance environmentally just approaches to researchactionspaces after disasters.
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