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Exploring and contextualizing public opposition to renewable electricity in the United States [PDF]

, 2009
This article explores public opposition to renewable power technologies in the United States. It begins by discussing the genesis of environmental ethics, or how some Americans have come to place importance on the protection of the environment and ...
Allen, Anders, Awerbuch, Barbour, Barclay, Bauen, Benjamin Sovacool, Berinstein, Bishnu, Boone, Carson, Coburn, Devine-Wright, Devine-Wright, Diesendorf, Duffield, Elton, Fielding, Flavin, Gagnon, Green, Kagel, Kahn, Kaplan, Karmis, Keating, Lee, Leopold, Mahapatra, Mohai, Nash, Norland, Ottaviano, Pasqualetti, Pasqualetti, Pater, Podlas, Roth, Sovacool, Sovacool, Sundqvist, Swartz, Thoreau, Upham, Upham   +44 more
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How Can China Resolve the NIMBY Dilemma in a Network Society? Government and Society-Negotiated Decisions Based on Evolutionary Game Analysis

Sustainability, 2022
Infrastructure, such as waste incineration infrastructure, is entangled in the “not in my back yard” (NIMBY) dilemma. Consequently, the closed public decision-making model has difficulty adapting to the increasingly strong public-participation needs ...
Cui Tian, Chuanfeng Han
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The Costs and Environmental Justice Concerns of NIMBY in Solid Waste Disposal

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2022
Many recent US Congresses have proposed bills that allow state and local governments to restrict interjurisdictional waste shipments. Using data on intercounty waste flows in California and a random utility model of haulers’ decisions about where to ...
Phuong Ho
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Are NIMBYs Commuters? [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
This paper considers a metropolitan area where residents can commute between several jurisdictions. These residents show NIMBY behavior (Not-In-My-Backyard). They try to preserve their living quality by pushing their polluting economic activity to the neighboring jurisdictions, while keeping their labor income as commuters.
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Addiction Frameworks, Social Stigma, and NIMBY Syndrome: Examining Barriers to Responding to the Opioid Crisis

Contemporary Drug Problems
Scholars have argued that stigma of opioid use disorder (OUD) is a significant barrier to implementing evidence-based responses to the opioid crisis, including the use of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).
Nathan E. Kruis, Övgü Kaynak, Christopher R. Whipple, Erica Saylor, W. Kensinger   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Problems of the social non-acceptance of mining projects with particular emphasis on the European Union – a literature review

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2014
Problems of the social non-acceptance of the mining industry (particularly development projects) is relatively new, so more widely discussed for a relatively short time.
Badera Jarosław
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Rüzgâr Enerji Sistemlerinin Sosyal Kabul Dinamiklerini Anlamak

Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi, 2017
The pressure of exhaustion over fossil-based energy sources, growing public concerns in parallel with environmental issues created by these sources, the relations of energy dependence created by monopolies related to the geographical condensation of ...
Çağdaş Kılıç, Mutlu Yılmaz, Ramazan Sarı   +2 more
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Underlying Causes of NIMBY Conflicts in Power Grid Construction Projects: An ISM–BN Model Perspective

Buildings
“Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) conflicts have emerged as a significant challenge in the siting and construction of power grid projects. Traditional risk management methods are often inadequate for addressing the complex interactions between the multiple ...
Tao Jiang, Zhenchao Xu, Busheng Zhou, Qingyun Zhang, Yong Liu   +4 more
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Do legitimacies of authority depend on information about public benefits/personal benefits in NIMBY problem?

Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2015
Legitimacy is defined as perceived approvability of others' or one's own rights to decide public policies on the basis of some reasons or values.
Hiroshi Nonami, Shoji Ohtomo, Go Sakamoto, Yutaka Tashiro   +3 more
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Design Optimization of Composite Grey Infrastructure from NIMBY to YIMBY: Case Study of Five Water Treatment Plants in Shenzhen’s High-Density Urban Areas

Buildings
Against the backdrop of Shenzhen’s high-density urban environment, the multifunctional design of water purification plants offers dual benefits: providing residents with urban green spaces while simultaneously mitigating NIMBY sentiments due to their ...
Zhiqi Yang, Yu Yan, Zijian Huang, Heng Liu   +3 more
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