The place of social impacts in the iterative assessment process: a case study of a highway project in the US State of Georgia

Social impact assessments (SIAs) were conducted in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process along the US 441 corridor in Clinch and Atkinson Counties, Georgia. The SIA approach consisted of both quantitative and participatory (public involvement) components. Successes in using this approach included: aligning the roadway with access and optimal benefits for the adjacent communities; support for the project despite the change it will bring to the region; improved relationships with the community, which previously had little trust in government; and, most important of all, education of the design engineers about community impacts.     

Patrick troy: Public good and the intellectual

Abstract

The life and career of Patrick Troy reveal a remarkable consistency of purpose. He brings technical expertise and a strong commitment to social justice to bear on a range of issues concerning the natural and built environment. This overview of his life and career records his contribution to the study and implementation of equitable public policy.     

Social justice in the training of professional psychologists: Moving forward.

The Special Section for Social Justice in Training of the journal for Training and Education in Professional Psychology adds to the growing social justice literature and offers advances in training. This article reflects on the main themes presented in the Special Section including the prevalent role of developmental perspectives, multiculturalism, implementation of learning through action, and organizational recommendations. Further, we highlight areas for additional consideration including the importance of examining values and assumptions of the profession, issues of power within training programs, the need to provide training in navigating and negotiating in systems, benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration, pragmatic and ethical issues in shifting to a social justice framework, and professional development needs of faculty and supervisors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Coal Strip Mining,Mountaintop Removal,and the Distribution of Environmental Violations across the United States, 2002–2008

This study draws upon concepts in landscape research and environmental justice to examine the association between community poverty and environmental violations that occurred between 2002 and 2008 across 110 coal strip mining operations located within the United States. Multivariate results suggest that residential poverty is greater around facilities that have been identified as violating an environmental law. In addition, the association between poverty and violations is dependent upon regulatory inspections. While an increase in inspections is associated with an increase in the odds that a violation will be discovered, it is also associated with lower levels of community poverty. We conclude that this pattern of associations between poverty, inspections, and violations is consistent with arguments in the environmental justice and landscape literatures.     

When customers lash out: The effects of customer interactional injustice on emotional labor and the mediating role of discrete emotions.

Using affective events theory to integrate multifoci justice and emotional labor (EL), this lab study examined the effects of customer interactional justice on EL perceived by both the self and others. Participants played the role of customer-service representatives in a workplace simulation and were exposed to either interactionally fair or unfair customers. Results showed that unfairly treated participants engaged in higher levels of EL and found it more difficult to comply with display rules than did participants who were fairly treated. The above link was partially mediated by anger. Our findings suggest that customers are a viable source of justice, and customer behavior impacts the effort required of service workers to adhere to organizationally sanctioned emotional display rules. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

It's Different to Give Than to Receive: Predictors of Givers' and Receivers' Reactions to Favor Exchange.

The present research examines episodes of favor exchange among peer employees. We posit that favor receivers' and favor givers' commitment to their exchange relationships with one another will be accounted for by different factors. As predicted, in 2 different organizational contexts, receivers' commitment to their relationships with givers was found to be more related to their judgments of the givers' interactional justice when performing the favor, whereas givers' commitment to their relationships with receivers was shown to be more associated with their judgments of the favorability of the outcomes associated with the favor that they performed. The implications of these findings for how givers and receivers can better manage favor exchange, and hence their relationships with each other, are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Organization structure as a moderator of the relationship between procedural justice, interactional justice, perceived organizational support, and supervisory trust.

Organizational justice researchers recognize the important role organization context plays in justice perceptions, yet few studies systematically examine contextual variables. This article examines how 1 aspect of context--organizational structure--affects the relationship between justice perceptions and 2 types of social exchange relationships, organizational and supervisory. The authors suggest that under different structural conditions, procedural and interactional justice will play differentially important roles in determining the quality of organizational social exchange (as evidenced by perceived organizational support [POS]) and supervisory social exchange (as evidenced by supervisory trust). In particular, the authors hypothesized that the relationship between procedural justice and POS would be stronger in mechanistic organizations and that the relationship between interactional justice and supervisory trust would be stronger in organic organizations. The authors' results support these hypotheses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Organizational Injustice and Psychological Strain.

Characterizing perceived injustice as a form of stress, we examined the main and interactive relationships among interactional, procedural, and distributive injustice and psychological strain while controlling for job insecurity. Using moderated multiple regression analysis with a sample of 1,083 government employees, we show that interactional, procedural, and distributive injustice are all unique predictors of psychological strain that account for significant unique variance beyond that explained by job insecurity. Those individuals who perceive more interactional, procedural, or distributive injustice at work reported a higher degree of strain. However, there were no significant interactive effects, suggesting that these three categories of perceived injustice do not interact to predict symptoms of psychological strain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

景观公正的研究进展与多维评价方法 探究

随着社会发展,城镇化进入转型时期,关于城市发展中社会公正的讨论越来越多,从景观视角来保障社会公正是风景园林师当下的责任。景观公正是指对于绿地资源的合理分配、使用、管理和运营,不论使用者的社会地位高低,让他们平等地享有景观权利与担负景观义务,其核心是景观层面上的平等正义。梳理了国内外景观公正的发展与研究进展,厘清景观公正的定义与内涵,总结景观公正的分配公正、过程公正和互动公正3个维度的应用场景与评价方法,对未来景观公正的建设内容提出了展望和建议。     

＂哲匠＂与＂塞米丝＂的结合——浅谈城市规划职业制度困境以及对律师制度借鉴的可能性

城市规划学科职业实践中的困境越来越受到社会的关注,而社会对其的看法也莫衷一是。而这个困境需要在什么方面寻求突破？本文立足于城市规划职业实践的困境以及职业制度的不足：工作内容缺失、权威性缺失、公平性、正义职责履行不足以及公众参与落实难,对比分析了城市规划职业制度与律师职业制度以及国外相关探索,建议规划职业制度的完善可以借...