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<p>Researchers and practitioners working with communities experiencing social-environmental change frequently aim to increase communities’ capacities to work toward their own established priorities or respond to changes. Organizations, governmental agencies, and researchers often grapple with engaging with communities or approach communities as lacking some knowledge or attribute. To provide examples of how to recognize, reinforce, and strengthen community capacity, researchers from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development examined ongoing community-engaged research projects. Framed by socioecological systems and public health scholarship on community capacity, the team conducted a comparative study of four place-based projects—Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Akron and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Crisfield, Maryland; and Newport, Oregon. Theoretically, our work leverages public health approaches to community capacity to operationalize concepts from social-ecological systems scholarship. Insights show the ability to characterize community capacity early in a process can be important to define a decision context and identify a strategy that fits both community and researcher capacity. Recognizing community capacity and being intentional about engagement strategies allows researchers and organizations to design processes aligned with communities’ priorities and capacities.</p>

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Recognizing, reinforcing, and strengthening community capacity through researcher–community partnerships: insights from EPA researchers’ engagements with communities in four US waterscapes

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    2025年11月25日

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  • Megan Dwyer Baumann,
  • Kathleen C. Williams,
  • Emily Eisenhauer,
  • Desiree Farrell,
  • Jenna M. Hartley,
  • Meghan R. Klasic,
  • A. Marissa Matsler,
  • Candace K. May,
  • Leah M. Sharpe,
  • Abigail Sullivan,
  • Kara Takasaki,
  • Kathleen Torso,
  • Dana HZ Williamson

摘要

Researchers and practitioners working with communities experiencing social-environmental change frequently aim to increase communities’ capacities to work toward their own established priorities or respond to changes. Organizations, governmental agencies, and researchers often grapple with engaging with communities or approach communities as lacking some knowledge or attribute. To provide examples of how to recognize, reinforce, and strengthen community capacity, researchers from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development examined ongoing community-engaged research projects. Framed by socioecological systems and public health scholarship on community capacity, the team conducted a comparative study of four place-based projects—Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Akron and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Crisfield, Maryland; and Newport, Oregon. Theoretically, our work leverages public health approaches to community capacity to operationalize concepts from social-ecological systems scholarship. Insights show the ability to characterize community capacity early in a process can be important to define a decision context and identify a strategy that fits both community and researcher capacity. Recognizing community capacity and being intentional about engagement strategies allows researchers and organizations to design processes aligned with communities’ priorities and capacities.