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Published in final edited form as: Front Sustain Food Syst. 2021 Jun 10;5:620470. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.620470

TABLE 3 |.

Questions to ask of the vulnerability and resiliency dataset to achieve environmental justice in communities neighboring active and legacy mining activities.

Questions Dataset used
1. What is/are the major: All datasets in Tables 1, 2
 a. Vulnerability(ies)
 b. Resiliency(ies)
2. Are we (all stakeholders) addressing them? N/A
 a. If not, how can we?
3. Are mining communities disproportionately exposed to Arsenic?
 a. If so, what is/are the major arsenic contributor(s) to daily dose of arsenic?
Gardenroots Data
• USEPA’s EJSCREEN
• National Water Quality Monitoring Counci
• U.S. Geological Survey
4. Are mining communities suffering/experiencing cancer/diabetes/obesity/asthma disproportionately?
 a. Why?
 b. Is it due to rural health disparities?
 c. Access to nutritional foods and public health programming?
• ADHS Environmental Health Public Tracking
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Study
• USDA ERS
5. Are mining communities with elevated arsenic concentrations suffering/experiencing cancer/diabetes/obesity/asthma disproportionately?
 a. If so, what is/are the major arsenic contributor(s) to daily dose of arsenic?
• Gardenroots Data
• USEPA’s EJSCREEN
• National Water Quality Monitoring Counci
• U.S. Geological Survey
• ADHS Environmental Health Public Tracking
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Study
• USDA ERS
6. Can we assign an index value (Bergstrand et al., 2015) ? All datasets in Tables 1, 2
7. Once we combine the vulnerability and resiliencies, can we rate and compare communities? N/A
8. How can we leverage the resiliencies to address the vulnerabilities? All datasets in Table 2
9. When considering ecosystem functions, what function(s) are in deficit/not working? Which functions are working?
 a. Provisioning
 b. Regulating
 c. Cultural
 d. Supporting
All datasets in Tables 1, 2
10. When considering
sustainability practices, what needs to occur:
 a. Economically—new job opportunities?
 b. Socially
 c. Environmentally
All datasets in Tables 1, 2
11. How can we successfully communicate with these communities at the local community and government level? • American Community Survey