Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Climate Justice, Governance, and the Fiscal Asymmetry in Environmental Justice Research
2026-09-08
The paper follows the evolution of environmental justice research from 1995 to 2025 and examines if the increasing interest in governance and climate politics has been followed by similar concern for fiscal policy tools. This is done through an analysis of the mapping of publications and thematic elements in three periods based on a corpus of English language, peer‐reviewed journal articles found in the Scopus database. The results show that environmental justice research has become increasingly policy‐oriented, focusing on governance and climate justice, while fiscal policies have received only marginal attention. What is crucial here is that the comparison between the corpus of environmental justice and an independent corpus of climate justice shows that this marginal attention is discriminatory because fiscal policy questions are addressed in the context of international financing of climate change but not in the context of national fiscal statecraft.