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Rüzgâr Enerji Sistemlerinin Sosyal Kabul Dinamiklerini Anlamak

open access: yesCoğrafi 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Homelessness and Support for Expanded Services: Los Angeles Residents' Perceptions of Public Safety in Their Neighbourhoods

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness in U.S. cities is a pressing civic issue, shaping residents' sense of safety and local policy debates. This study examines Los Angeles residents' perceptions of safety, their proximity to encampments, and attitudes towards mental health and substance use services. Using representative survey data from 4408 residents, we assess (1)
Sawyer Hogenkamp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Not In My Backyard? (W-NIMBY): the potential of design-driven environmental infrastructure to foster greater acceptance among host communities

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability
Non-technical summary While environmental infrastructure is commonly understood as important, there are concerns about issues such as air, noise, and visual pollution, causing ‘Not In My Backyard’ (NIMBY) attitudes.
Vivek Anand Asokan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracing Colonial Continuities: Internal Colonialism and Energy Transition in Sardinia

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Internal colonialism provides historical and structural conditions making current forms of energy extractivism possible. Processes through which earlier internal colonisation operated—territorial dispossession, racialised hierarchies, forced modernisation and the construction of internal ‘Others’—are reactivated today under the global ...
Martina Loi, Alice Salimbeni
wiley   +1 more source

NIMBY or Citizen Participation? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Bruce Clary has written on citizen participation and its role in democratic societies for more than two decades. In the Margaret Chase Smith Essay, he writes about the NIMBY (“Not in My Backyard”) phenomenon and his own experiences as a citizen ...
Clary, Bruce
core   +1 more source

Liking Without Endorsing: Consumer Dilemmas in Responses to AI‐Generated Music

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 9, Page 2229-2244, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite a growing literature documenting consumer aversion to AI‐generated creative output, AI‐generated music has achieved notable success in the marketplace, with some songs achieving chart placements and attracting millions of streams.
Andrew B. Edelblum, Joshua Poe
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging the Complexities of Energy Transitions: Sociotechnical and Dualistic Insights From Crossdisciplinary Undergraduates

open access: yesScience Education, Volume 110, Issue 5, Page 1388-1404, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Discourses of energy and energy transition have become increasingly prevalent in informal and formal learning spaces. Energy transitions differ across regions, contexts, and technologies. The contextual nature of energy is an opportunity for a sociotechnical approach to its study.
Desen S. Özkan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Acceptance Optimization of Biomass Plants: a Fuzzy Cognitive Map and Evolutionary Algorithm Application

open access: yesChemical Engineering Transactions, 2014
Implementation of biomass plants is often thwarted by public opposition, despite potential technical- economic and normative feasibility. This opposition is generally known as NIMBY effect.
S. Sacchelli
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Gap Between Socio‐Political and Community Acceptance of Wind Energy: Policy Insights for Sustainable Energy Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 6166-6192, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Wind energy plays an important role in achieving energy transition and sustainable development goals, yet disparities between socio‐political and community acceptance continue to hinder project implementation. Understanding this gap is essential for designing more socially responsive wind energy policies.
Kaiqi Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les conflits de localisation : le syndrome NIMBY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Depuis les années 1970-1980, les réactions d'opposition à la localisation d'équipements dangereux ou générateurs de nuisances se sont diversifiées, intensifiées et structurées au point de devenir un problème capital pour la société.Forgé aux États-Unis ...
Marchetti, Nicolas
core   +1 more source

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