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June 1, 2026Current Environmental Health ReportsOpen Access

Encoding Justice with Data: Environmental Justice Screening Tools and the Limits of Quantification

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MDMisbath DaoudaCGCarlos F. Gould

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Overview

Review examines environmental justice indices' design choices, implications for communities, and research applications.

Key Points

  • This review analyzes government-sponsored environmental justice indices in the U.S. to understand their structural design and implications.
  • Examined indices from peer-reviewed research between 2020 and 2025.
  • Analyzed structural features, aggregation strategies, and underlying assumptions of these indices.
  • Assessed the influence and use of these indices in research.
  • Indices typically include exposure and vulnerability domains, showing strong structural convergence across jurisdictions.
  • Additive and multiplicative aggregation methods encode different assumptions, affecting community rankings.
  • Indices are used infrequently as primary analytical tools, and key dimensions remain weakly represented.

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Daouda et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1d236002fbce91306390cdhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-026-00543-9
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