Research in this area circles around these pillars:
A Conservative Approach to Environmental Law: Be Data Driven
Political debates around environmental policy should be grounded in empirical data (scientifically produced and peer-reviewed) rather than ideology. Many political conservatives, like many political liberals, have remained emotionally transfixed to certain positions on environmental issues that cannot withstand analysis or data. The reflexive rejection of climate change is one example of an empirically bankrupt tenet of current conservative orthodoxy that will ultimately be politically damaging.
Transparency in an Era of Data-Driven Policy: The Importance of Reproducible Research
Government entities such as the Environmental Protection Agency encourage and employ data-driven “evidence-based policymaking” to make decisions and recommendations.
(PDF) Big Data in Climate Change Research: opportunities and Challenges
Climate change study is a data intensive subject which has seen numerous innovation s in the data collection methods, and study of that data using Big Data Analytics. There is a considerable shift from study methods like random sampling of climate data to data intensive methods where complete datasets are analysed by means of Big Data Analytics.
Framework of big data in climate change studies (Source: Hassani et. al., 2019)