Abstract:

In order to identify the different dimensions of social justice in the risk communication of public crisis events for the promotion of sustainable social development, the theoretical mechanism between the four dimensions of social justice: procedural, interactive, distributive, and corrective justice and sustainable social, ecological, spatial, and temporal characteristics were explained by constructing a theoretical framework of risk justice. Then, we defined risk justice as the fair and reasonable quality of stakeholders' right to participate in the governance and management of public crisis events. To validate the constructed risk justice frameworks, we conducted a detailed content analysis of the risk management guideline, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which was used to elucidate the prospective potential of the risk justice framework. The results suggest that this risk management guideline emphasizes the social and spatial issues of distributive and procedural justice, and less consideration in interactivity, corrective justice, and temporal and ecological issues, which may lead to the negative impacts of public crisis events risk communication on the sustainable development of society.

Key words: risk communication, sustainable development, social justice, coupling mechanisms, public crisis events