DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911116117
论文题名: Inconsistent allocations of harms versus benefits may exacerbate environmental inequality
作者: Makov T. ; Newman G.E. ; Zauberman G.
刊名: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 0027-8424
出版年: 2020
卷: 117, 期: 16 起始页码: 8820
结束页码: 8824
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Allocation decisions
; Environmental justice
; Fairness
; Harms vs. benefits
; Inequality
Scopus关键词: adult
; article
; government
; human
; justice
; air pollution
; environmental policy
; female
; male
; management
; middle aged
; prevention and control
; psychology
; stakeholder engagement
; water quality
; Adult
; Air Pollution
; Environmental Policy
; Female
; Humans
; Male
; Middle Aged
; Policy Making
; Stakeholder Participation
; Water Quality
英文摘要: We report five studies that examine preferences for the allocation of environmental harms and benefits. In all studies, participants were presented with scenarios in which an existing environmental inequality between two otherwise similar communities could either be decreased or increased through various allocation decisions. Our results demonstrate that despite well-established preferences toward equal outcomes, people express weaker preferences for options that increase equality when considering the allocation of environmental harms (e.g., building new polluting facilities) than when considering the allocation of environmental benefits (e.g., applying pollution-reducing technologies). We argue that this effect emerges from fairness considerations rooted in a psychological incompatibility between the allocation of harms, which is seen as an inherently unfair action, and equality, which is a basic fairness principle. Since the allocation of harms is an inevitable part of operations of both governments and businesses, our results suggest that where possible, parties interested in increasing environmental equality may benefit from framing such proposals as bestowing relative benefits instead of imposing relative harms. © 2020 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/164235
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作者单位: Makov, T., Department of Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel, Center for Industrial Ecology, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Newman, G.E., Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Zauberman, G., Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Recommended Citation:
Makov T.,Newman G.E.,Zauberman G.. Inconsistent allocations of harms versus benefits may exacerbate environmental inequality[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,2020-01-01,117(16)