Research Report Screening for Environmental Justice: A Framework for Comparing National, State, and Local Data Tools
Chitra Balakrishnan, Yipeng Su, Judah Axelrod, Samantha Fu
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We conduct a scan of national, state, and local environmental justice data tools and develop a framework to compare the tools across a number of dimensions. These include the development process, the indicators and data sources used in each tool, if and how race and ethnicity were included, and how tools quantified burdens for and prioritized among potential environmental justice communities. We present these dimensions in an accompanying Airtable for each of the 31 tools that we scanned. Using this analytical framework, we identify five key themes that emerge from our comparative analysis and offer recommendations for how screening tools can be improved to promote data-driven decision making that advances environmental justice. Our work adds to an existing—and growing—body of literature on the uses and limitations of national, state, and local environmental justice data tools.

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Research Areas Climate change, disasters, and community resilience Race and equity Neighborhoods, cities, and metros
Tags Community engagement Environmental justice Racial inequities in health Structural racism Planning for climate change Racial Equity Analytics Lab
Policy Centers Office of Race and Equity Research Research to Action Lab
Research Methods Qualitative data analysis Data collection Community Engagement Resource Center
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