Encoding Justice with Data: Environmental Justice Screening Tools and the Limits of Quantification
Misbath Daouda, Carlos F Gould · 2026
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Misbath Daouda and Carlos F Gould examine government environmental justice screening tools in the United States, in a 2026 review. Rather than scoring the tools' outputs, the authors dissect their structure: which domains they include, how they combine numbers, and what assumptions sit underneath. Use of the tools in research from 2020 to 2025 also comes under review.
Across jurisdictions, designs converged on exposure and vulnerability domains. Adding burdens together versus multiplying them encodes different beliefs about how harms interact, which shifts which communities get flagged. Procedural fairness and recognition of communities stayed weakly represented. The authors warn that these indices govern real eligibility and funding, so their partial view of justice needs democratic context.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Misbath Daouda, Carlos F Gould |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |