Living in grey areas: Industrial activity and psychological health

The main goal of this paper was to explore the relationship between living in industrial areas and individual’s level of psychological health. Using a quasi-experimental design main findings suggest that, regardless of the type of industry that is operating, there was a significant association between living in industrialized areas and decreased levels of well being, optimism and use of active coping strategies. However, results on anxiety and depression were especially high in areas associated with air pollution. Moreover, there was also a significant association between more subjective meanings of place and psychological health. According to a reality-orientation criterion, evidences showed that when individuals live in industrial areas perceptions of their places as industrial are associated with lower depression, anxiety and psychiatric symptoms.     

Cognitive and affective identification: Exploring the links between different forms of social identification and personality with work attitudes and behavior

Individuals often identify with groups in order to either reduce perceived uncertainty or to feel better about who they are as individuals. This suggests that cognitive and affective identification are two distinctive forms of social identification in organizational settings. Because neurotic individuals are highly motivated to reduce perceived uncertainty, they will tend to identify cognitively with groups. Extraverted individuals, on the other hand, are highly motivated to enhance how they feel about themselves and thus identify affectively with groups. Across three studies, we develop measures of cognitive and affective identification and then show that neuroticism is positively related to cognitive identification, whereas extraversion is positively related to affective identification. We also find that affective identification provides incremental predictive validity over and above cognitive identification in the prediction of organizational commitment, organizational involvement, and organizational citizenship behaviors. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

生态足迹动态变化效应的分解分析

通过完全分解模型,把生态足迹分解为经济规模、产业结构和足迹强度3种因素的变化效应,为定量研究影响环境压力的因素提供一种思路。对武汉市1995～2020年生态足迹的动态变化的研究表明:生态足迹变化是由各因素共同作用的结果,而在不同时期各因素对足迹变化所发挥的效应不同;总的看,经济规模的增长助长总足迹的增加,而足迹强度的降低对总足迹的扩张起到了一定的遏制作用,产业结构的变动先是对生态足迹的增长起遏制作用,随后对生态足迹的增长起促进作用。     

国家生态工业示范园区与ISO14000国家示范区的评价标准比较研究

国家生态工业示范园区和ISO14000国家示范区,是国家环保部推行的两种示范园区,这两种示范园区的有效推行,在提升经济发展和生态环境保护的协调性方面具有重要意义。从示范园区申报和评价标准两个角度,首次对两种示范园区的异同进行讨论,在此基础上提出,在生态工业示范园区的建设过程中,融入ISO14000的管理机制、环境因素等,可以更好地促进生态工业园区的建设发展。     

Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years?

This paper reviews research in place attachment and organizes the material into three sections: research, method, and theory. A review of several hundred empirical and theoretical papers and chapters reveals that despite mobility and globalization processes, place continues to be an object of strong attachments. The main message of the paper is that of the three components of the tripartite model of place attachment (Scannell & Gifford, 2010a), the Person component has attracted disproportionately more attention than the Place and Process components, and that this emphasis on individual differences probably has inhibited the development of a theory of place attachment. Suggestions are offered for theoretical sources that might help to fill the gaps, including theories of social capital, environmental aesthetics, phenomenological laws of order, attachment, and meaning-making processes that stem from movements and time-space routines.     

我国建筑安全认知水平“身份”测度

为研究不同建筑安全主体群社会学的身份变量与建筑安全认知水平之间的关系,提出监理工程师和施工现场的建筑劳务用工人员2个主体群之间的身份变量与建筑安全认知水平之间的4个差异化假设。实证结果表明:2个主体群具有显著的群体性差别;群体变量验证了建筑安全教育的差别引起了主体群的建筑安全认识水平有显著性差异;生理(性别)变量和年龄变量验证了主体群在对建筑安全事故的了解情况上呈现较多的显著性差异;文化程度变量验证了主体群在建筑安全管理现状上呈现较多的显著性差异;居住地变量未获得明显验证。论文的个案调查证实了关于建筑安全认知水平,不同建筑安全主体群具有显著性的社会学身份属性差异。     

Cocky and climate smart? Climate change mitigation and place-branding in three Swedish towns

Sustainable development has emerged as a distinctive marker of place identity in addition to traditional markers such as buildings and spectacles. Climate change mitigation as a potential place brand, indicating sustainable development, is in focus of this article, comparing such efforts in three Swedish towns. Based on documentary studies and interviews, it demonstrates how one town has been successful in branding itself as “the Greenest City in Europe”, whereas mitigation efforts in two other towns are barely known outside the town halls. In the first case, a combination of material, symbolic, and institutional components has been decisive in establishing a brand with internal and external legitimacy. This case highlights the importance of a dedicated network of influential actors and a potent governance structure visualising the will of a town to make its climate mitigation efforts known. Despite similar material conditions, the two others come short on the symbolic and the institutional dimensions, although they may still have a potential for future success in terms of mitigation both in practice and as a marker of identity.     

“Single-minded,compelling, and unique”: Visual Communications,Landscape, and the Calculated Aesthetic of Place Branding

Place branding strategies play a significant role in the professional composition of landscape imagery, including the depiction of “natural” landscapes. In this paper, Brand Blue Mountains, a brand currently implemented in the Blue Mountains region (Australia), is discursively analyzed. The brand sets out an all-encompassing “Vision” defining the identity, values and personality of the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains landscape, summarized in the tagline Elevate Your Senses. This “vision” is visually translated into a strictly coordinated and copyrighted suite of logos, graphic design, color, fonts and various photographic styles. Analysis reveals that the degree of control that place brand strategists seek to exert over the visual expression of landscape identity is significant. A highly selective narrative of positive nature-based sensory experience is constructed through the holistic application of contemporary visual media. The brands' communications strategy naturalizes and reinforces a particular market-friendly version of place. The framework that brands set for the representation of landscapes overall amounts to an exercise in calculated aesthetics, whereby the form and content of landscape images of various kinds is measured to achieve the greatest market differentiation and impact which technologies allow. The result of this calculated aesthetic system, with its taglines, saturated color, careful composition and magazine-format brevity, is a reduction in the complexity of landscape representations and a perpetuation of nature stereotypes.