ABSTRACT
The previous chapter focused on how people understand and react to fairness, or the lack of fairness, in environmental decision making. Up to this point the analysis has considered individual perceptions of fairness and justice. We now consider justice and fairness within the broader perspectives of process and outcome in decision making, although still drawing from individual perceptions. In addition, from this point on, the thread of injustice will be incorporated into the emerging justice picture. This chapter continues with an analysis of the findings from the two Australian water resource case studies. It deepens the consideration of the three major constructs of justice: interactional justice, procedural justice and distributive justice. An important aim of this book is to investigate how perceptions of fairness and justice from within a decision-making process contribute to people’s acceptance of an outcome. These three constructs of justice are used as a way of organising the analysis in this chapter. These constructs can be envisioned as a set of three lenses, each focusing on different themes within the data that can highlight these areas. Insights are thus gathered and reflected back out through the lenses into the conceptual analysis. General implications can then be drawn from these insights.
