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Public Behavior Evolution and Resolution Strategy of NIMBY Conflict from the Perspective of Risk Perception—A Case Study of Waste Incineration Project inYuhang,Zhejiang Province

SUN Zhuangzhen   

  1. (College of Marxism,Southwest University of Science and Technology,Mianyang 621010,Sichuan China)
  • Online:2020-07-01 Published:2020-07-31

Abstract: In recent years,the Chinese public have developed a strong perception of environmental risk brought by harmful NIMBY facilities (waste incineration,chemical plants,etc.),which have caused frequent mass incidents.From the perspective of risk perception,the municipal solid waste incineration project inYuhang,Zhejiang Province has experienced such steps as strong risk perception,firm opposition,declination of risk perception,attempt in understanding,change of attitude,and acceptance.In sequence,the evolution mechanism of public behavior in NIMBY projects follows a logic of physical risk,amplification of the risk perception,generation of the crisis,transformation of the intervention factors,declination of the risk perception,and resolution of the crisis.In order to get rid of the emergency treatment of NIMBY projects,a normal decision-making procedure embedded with public risk perception should be constructed,whose core is the public risk perception,with the close link of risk communication,scientific technical assessment and reasonable interest compensation,the concept of deliberative democracy running through the whole procedure.

Key words: risk perception, NIMBY conflict, behavior evolution, decision-making procedure

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