Data from quantitative systematic review of distributive environmental justice literature; a rich history, and the need for an enterprising future.

Data were produced as part of a systematic literature review. Abstract for review: Environmental distributive justice, contextually assesses social equities in relation to natural resources. While there is a rich literature on environmental distributive justice, there have been few assessments quantifying the biases and scopes of this literature. We conduct a systematic review of the literature. We find several key biases, and summarise the breadth of subjects that have been studied or discussed. We find a very distinct overlap between authorship nationality and study location, which is concerning, as some of the world’s most polluted and inequitable societies are least represented in authorship. Additionally, we find a dominance of quantitative studies. These results are important for understanding both where future research efforts in this discipline could best be directed, and how the literature could be enriched by diversified approaches. Improving environmental justice studies is critical and important for many people across our global society, which is increasingly shaped by widespread natural resource depletion.本数据产生于一项系统性文献综述研究。本次综述的核心主题为：环境分配正义（Environmental distributive justice），即从语境维度评估与自然资源相关的社会公平议题。尽管现有关于环境分配正义的研究文献颇丰，但针对该领域文献的偏差与研究范围开展量化评估的工作却寥寥无几。本研究通过系统性文献综述，发现了若干关键偏差，并梳理了该领域已被研究或讨论的主题覆盖范畴。我们发现作者国籍与研究开展地之间存在显著的重叠现象，这一现象令人担忧：全球部分污染最严重、公平性最缺失的社会群体，在该领域的作者群体中代表性最低。此外，本研究发现该领域的研究以定量研究占据主导地位。上述研究结果对于明确该学科未来研究的最优方向，以及探索如何通过多元化研究方法丰富现有文献体系均具有重要意义。在全球社会日益受到大规模自然资源枯竭影响的当下，完善环境正义领域的研究对于全球社会中的众多群体而言至关重要。