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Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens
Agriculture and Human Values ( IF 4.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 , DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10236-8
Melanie Malone

Over the past several decades, urban community gardens have arisen in diverse and economically compromised neighborhoods across the U.S. as part of multiple environmental justice efforts. Urban community gardens have enabled users to mitigate the effects of many environmental injustices such as the impact of food deserts, nutrient poor food found at convenience stores, and pesticide laden grocery items. While these benefits have promulgated across the U.S., community gardens are also well known to be located in historically contaminated locations in urban landscapes. These landscapes include former brownfield sites, superfund sites, and other abandoned spaces of contamination. Although environmental justice efforts to reclaim healthy food in urban community gardens are commendable, the presence and effects of potentially harmful contaminants is often overlooked as gardens are established. Further, governmental organizations tasked with protecting human health, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, have not established any health standards for urban community gardens. This creates many challenges in determining what is safe in community gardens, and garden mangers and users are often unaware of how severe the impacts of contamination may be or how to mitigate its effects. In this study, I highlight the prevalence of harmful concentrations of contaminants in urban community gardens in and near Seattle, Washington that are managed with organic practices. I then present the challenges and barriers to gardening in contaminated spaces. Finally, I make recommendations to address contamination in gardens spaces, and call for better regulatory standards and other forms of support to mitigate risk to users.



中文翻译:

寻求正义,吃毒药:城市社区花园中被忽视的污染物

在过去的几十年里,作为多项环境正义努力的一部分,城市社区花园出现在美国各地不同且经济受损的社区。城市社区花园使用户能够减轻许多环境不公平的影响,例如食物沙漠的影响、便利店中发现的营养不足的食物以及含有农药的杂货。虽然这些好处已在美国各地公布,但众所周知,社区花园位于城市景观中历史悠久的污染位置。这些景观包括以前的棕地场地、超级基金场地和其他废弃的污染空间。尽管在城市社区花园中回收健康食品的环境正义努力值得称道,随着花园的建立,潜在有害污染物的存在和影响往往被忽视。此外,负责保护人类健康的政府组织,如环境保护局,尚未为城市社区花园制定任何健康标准。这在确定社区花园中什么是安全的方面带来了许多挑战,花园管理员和用户通常不知道污染的影响可能有多严重或如何减轻其影响。在这项研究中,我强调了华盛顿州西雅图市及其附近城市社区花园中通过有机实践进行管理的有害污染物浓度的普遍性。然后,我介绍了在受污染空间进行园艺的挑战和障碍。最后,我提出了解决花园空间污染的建议,

更新日期:2021-06-25
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