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Why not in your Backyard? On the Location and Size of a Public Facility [PDF]

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In this paper, we tackle the issue of locating a public facility which provides a public good in a closed and populated territory. This facility generates differentiated benefits to neighborhoods depending on their distance from it.
Giorgio Bellettini, Hubert Kempf
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Syndrom NIM BY jako przykład samoorganizacji społecznej na poziomie lokalnym

open access: yesStudia Regionalne i Lokalne, 2008
Przedmiotem tego artykułu jest szczególny typ konfliktu społecznego – syndrom NIMBY (Not In My BackYard). Znakomicie zbadany i opisany przez socjologów amerykańskich, w Polsce jeszcze nie znalazł właściwego zainteresowania.
Elżbieta Michałowska
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Pursuing Green Growth: Some Conflicts and Necessary Conditions for a Pragmatic Environmental Policy [PDF]

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This paper focusses narrowly on three areas of public policy concerning the environment deemed necessary for sustainable economic growth. It has relevance to Asian nations as they continue to demand for higher growth and at the same time keeping ...
Euston Quah
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ECONOMIC INSIGHTS INTO THE SITING PROBLEM: AN APPLICATION OF THE EXPECTED UTILITY MODEL [PDF]

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Despite the generally recognized need for facilities such as power plants, landfills, prisons, and medical laboratories, finding host sites has become extremely difficult.
Halstead, John M.   +2 more
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ON A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE NIMBY CONFLICT [PDF]

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Political Economy,
Feinerman, Eli   +2 more
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Résistance aux grands projets et émergence d’un capital politique, le cas des déchets

open access: yesL'Espace Politique, 2018
Among contemporary environmental conflicts, those associated with waste are the most virulent as they arouse four types of simultaneous feelings among local actors: injustice, fear, mistrust, disgust.
Léa Sébastien
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Environmental racism throughout the history of economic globalization

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2019
Environmental racism plagues the history and contemporary realities of globalization. To control resources, stake holders seek to dominate lands and peoples in order to produce at a maximum profit.
Michelle Suzanne McIntyre-Brewer
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The impact of social housing developments on nearby property prices: A Nelson Mandela Bay Case Study [PDF]

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Social housing projects often face substantial “Not-in-my-backyard†(NIMBY) sentiment and as a result are frequently plagued by local opposition from communities who argue that nearby property prices will be affected adversely by these developments ...
M. Du Preez, M.C. Sale
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