With the aim of mobilizing engineers and scientists to address environmental, climate, and energy justice challenges in the United States, this study examines how engineers and scientists view their incentives, barriers, and potential for community‐based collaborations. Through a purposive convenience sample (n = 281) and an online questionnaire, we investigate the attitudes and experiences of engineers and scientists regarding their community‐based work. Our analyses reveal dynamics of race, class, and experience, suggesting a type of socio‐demographic conditioning informing community‐based collaborations. Engineers and scientists also identify four main barriers to community‐based work: lack of time, lack of funding, lack of rapport, and knowledge deficits. In response, we introduce a field of collaboration with its own set of capitals—economic, cultural, social, and symbolic—and offer recommendations on how engineers, scientists, and community groups might collaborate with each other to address longstanding issues of energy, climate, and environmental injustice in the United States.

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为工程师，科学家和社区团体建立合作领域：激励，障碍和潜力

为了动员工程师和科学家应对美国的环境，气候和能源正义挑战，本研究研究了工程师和科学家如何看待他们的动机，障碍和社区合作的潜力。通过目的性便利样本（n= 281）和在线问卷调查，我们调查了工程师和科学家对基于社区的工作的态度和经验。我们的分析揭示了种族，阶级和经验的动态变化，表明了一种社会人口统计学条件，可以告知社区合作。工程师和科学家还确定了社区工作的四个主要障碍：时间紧缺，资金不足，融洽关系和知识不足。作为回应，我们介绍了一个与自己的首都（经济，文化，社会和象征性首都）进行协作的领域，并就工程师，科学家和社区团体如何相互协作解决能源，气候的长期问题提供了建议，以及美国的环境不公。