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211 gap statements mined from Environmental Justice and Health Disparities papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,454 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • Our findings begin to fill an important gap in knowledge on trust in the VHA following military environmental exposure at CL and can be used to inform future policy and community-engagement efforts to optimize the health and healthcare of Veterans with such exposures.

    Examining Trust Among Veterans from Camp Lejeune Exposed to Environmental Toxicants: A Qualitative Study · 2026 · DOI

  • Knowledge integration is insufficient: although residents of informal settlements often draw on local and culturally rooted knowledge and practices to adapt to heat, this type of knowledge is rarely considered in official contexts, with only a few included studies calling for meaningful integration in these contexts.

    Assessing ethical aspects of heat adaptation in informal settlements in LMIC urban areas using a disaster justice informed theory: a rapid review · 2026 · DOI

  • Meanwhile, we also need to clearly recognize that the limitation of this study in terms of quantitative research methods is that only CiteSpace was used for visual analysis.

    Current Status and Prospects of Ecological Restoration and Brownfield Reuse Research Based on Bibliometric Analysis: A Literature Review · 2025 · DOI

  • The need to effectively manage and regulate ECs under existing measures.

    Emerging Contaminants in Landfill Leachate and Groundwater: A Case Study of Hazardous Waste Landfill and Municipal Solid Waste Landfill in Northeastern China · 2024 · DOI

  • Frameworks are lacking to help community science collaborators determine the contributions and leadership needed to initiate, sustain, and link together multiple projects that jointly support local learning and action, as well as contribute to broader scientific knowledge of complex social-ecological systems.

    Joining collective impact and community science: a framework for core collaborative community science · 2024 · DOI

  • Across these patches, an important weakness is insufficient protection for the quantity of resource-scale groundwater for drinking water wells (as opposed to treated, piped groundwater).

    Groundwater sustainability, drinking water, and environmental justice in California’s Central Valley, USA · 2026 · DOI

  • From an urban climate justice perspective, these inequities need to be considered in climate adaptation planning practices, something that is currently lacking in many municipalities.

    Towards urban climate justice: Integrating social vulnerability in climate adaptation planning · 2025 · DOI

  • The governance systems and adaptive and/or transformative capacities needed to overcome these dilemmas are poorly understood.

    State-reinforced co-provision of community-governed greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Chicago’s innovative NeighborSpace Land Trust and Partnership · 2025 · DOI

  • There is a need to examine the construction of environmental justice indices and their use in peer-reviewed research. The study identifies a gap in the analysis of the indices' design choices and structural features.

    Encoding Justice with Data: Environmental Justice Screening Tools and the Limits of Quantification · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies the challenge of designing policies that balance individual freedoms with the need to address environmental challenges. The research notes the challenge of considering the shared responsibilities and vulnerabilities of individuals in policy design. The study highlights the challenge of prioritizing distributive justice and procedural justice in policy design.

    Perceptions and acceptability of environmental public policies in Paris: A social justice lens · 2026 · DOI

  • The study suggests that future research should investigate the perceptions of other populations regarding environmental public policies. The research recommends that future studies explore the role of distributive justice and procedural justice in policy design.

    Perceptions and acceptability of environmental public policies in Paris: A social justice lens · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should focus on the development of more effective measures to combat environmental racism. Future research should examine the impact of climate change on marginalized communities.

    Analysing discrimination and environmental racism through the lens of environmental justice · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper highlights the need for greater attention to the issue of environmental racism and its relationship to neo-colonial capitalism.

    Analysing discrimination and environmental racism through the lens of environmental justice · 2026 · DOI

  • The case of the Doña Juana Landfill is used to fill this gap.

    “It Is as If They Were Killing the Land”: Community Resistance in Dona Juana and Their Struggle Against Environmental Injustice · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies the challenge of addressing the gendered impacts of air pollution, which are often overlooked in policy and decision-making. The analysis highlights the need for gender-sensitive policies to address the disproportionate impacts of air pollution on women.

    Air Pollution as Gendered Oppression: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of consideration of ethical, legal, social, environmental, and governance implications in decision-making. The need for meaningful engagement and participation of affected groups.

    Confusion, communication, and consent: ELSI barriers to genomics-enhanced remediation in Alberta’s oil sands · 2026 · DOI

  • The spatial structure of IRCA has not been examined. There is a lack of understanding of the spatial dependence and cluster persistence in drinking-water quality risk. The paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing the spatial structure of IRCA in the department of Santander, Colombia.

    Spatial Dependence and Cluster Persistence in Drinking-Water Quality Risk: Municipal Evidence from the Department of Santander, Colombia, 2007–2020 · 2026 · DOI

  • Occupational health concerns within this workforce remain comparatively underexplored in empirical research.

    OCCUPATIONAL PRESSURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS ON HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG TRAFFIC POLICE PERSONNEL · 2026 · DOI

  • Limited research has comprehensively examined the integrated impact of occupational pressure and environmental hazards on both physical and mental health outcomes. Existing studies have primarily focused on either occupational stress or environmental pollution exposure among traffic police personnel.

    OCCUPATIONAL PRESSURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS ON HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG TRAFFIC POLICE PERSONNEL · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need to influence corporate governance and global policy processes. The study identifies the challenge of making visible plural valuation languages, including spiritual, cultural, and ecological perspectives.

    Business and Environmental Justice: From Political Economies to Political Ecologies · 2026 · DOI

  • An arts-based method such as digital oral storytelling strategically leverages institutional resources like academic support and digital platforms to create accessible archives and widely shared narratives, without becoming limited by these institutional affiliations (Beals and Wilson 2020).

    Proclaiming Our Roots: Afro-Indigenous Identity, Resistance, and the Making of a Movement · 2025 · DOI

  • OF THIS STUDYO_LITo our knowledge, this is the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate planetary health and environmental justice integration in secondary construction career education.

    Integrating planetary health and environmental justice into high school construction career education: protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Ecosystem Justice Translator · 2026 · DOI

  • The study used a limited number of focus groups and an interview, - The study relied on self-reported data from participants, - The study did not include a quantitative analysis…

    Confusion, communication, and consent: ELSI barriers to genomics-enhanced remediation in Alberta’s oil sands · 2026 · DOI

  • Investigating the factors that contribute to the reduction in water quality risk - Examining the effectiveness of administrative surveillance indicators in improving water quality - Studying the spatial structure of water quality risk in other…

    Spatial Dependence and Cluster Persistence in Drinking-Water Quality Risk: Municipal Evidence from the Department of Santander, Colombia, 2007–2020 · 2026 · DOI

  • More research on behavioral effects of air pollution is needed, - Research on links between pollution exposure and AB in childhood and adolescence remains understudied, - Studies examining exposure in early childhood…

    Independent and Interactive Connections Between Exposure to Pollution and the Development of Low-Income Boys’ Antisocial Behavior · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) There is a need to examine the construction of environmental justice indices and their use in peer-reviewed research (“Encoding Justice with Data: Environmental Justice Screening Tools and the…”, 2026); (2) The study suggests that future research should investigate the perceptions of other populations regarding environmental public policies (“Perceptions and acceptability of environmental public policies in Paris: A…”, 2026); (3) Future research should focus on the development of more effective measures to combat environmental racism (“Analysing discrimination and environmental racism through the lens of…”, 2026); (4) The lack of consideration of ethical, legal, social, environmental, and governance implications in decision-making (“Confusion, communication, and consent: ELSI barriers to genomics-enhanced…”, 2026); (5) There is a lack of understanding of the spatial dependence and cluster persistence in drinking-water quality risk (“Spatial Dependence and Cluster Persistence in Drinking-Water Quality Risk:…”, 2026). 211 gap statements have been mined from Environmental Justice and Health Disparities papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,454 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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