Abstract
NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) projects are easily stigmatized due to their environmental risk. Stigmatization enlarges residents’ risk perception, urges residents to spread information, and takes actions to resist project implementation, causing environmental mass emergency. Taking paraxylene (PX) project as an example, information dissemination model of NIMBY project under stigmatization based on SEIR model in small world network was established, and the information dissemination process and characteristics of NIMBY project under stigmatization were simulated and analysed. The results show that (1) the public risk perception deviation caused by stigmatization promotes residents to disseminate information; (2) stigmatization has a greater impact on the information dissemination of NIMBY project with low environmental risk; (3) stigmatization accelerates the speed of information dissemination and increases the number of residents participating in information dissemination in different dissemination environment. The contribution of this paper is that SEIR model in small world network is used to verify the role of stigmatization in promoting information dissemination of NIMBY project by comparing the information dissemination before and after stigmatization.
Highlights
As people’s well-being continues to improve, NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) projects are more being resisted in the quick process of urbanization [1]
Information Dissemination of NIMBY Project under Stigmatization. e social amplification of risk framework (SARF) is dedicated to answering the question “Why are projects with low risk assessed by experts cause widespread public concern and seriously affect social and economic development?” In SARF, stigmatization is considered as one of the four main reaction mechanisms in the process of social amplification of risk, and the ripple effect caused by stigmatization will have greater social impact [22]. is paper focuses on the impact of stigmatization on the information dissemination in the ripple reaction caused by stigmatization
Due to its technical and engineering properties, NIMBY projects will produce risks that will not be transferred by will [23]. is kind of risk is the actual tangible and quantifiable hazard [24], which is embodied in the environmental risks such as safety threat, health hazard, environmental pollution, and ecological damage of the project [25,26,27]. is means that residents do have the probability of getting physical injury
Summary
As people’s well-being continues to improve, NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) projects are more being resisted in the quick process of urbanization [1]. Ese negative emotions may lead to residents’ opposition to local development of these projects, which are motivated by the potential environment risk from those NIMBY projects [3]. Ese NIMBY projects do meet the needs for living and economic development that benefit the city. NIMBY projects could be divided into three categories, that is, pollutionrelated, risk-clustering, and psychological dismay. Pollutionrelated NIMBY projects include waste treatment plant, sewage treatment facilities, highway, etc., which are opposed because of their pollution. Risk-clustering projects include public facilities with high risk but low probability of occurrence, such as nuclear power plant and paraxylene project, whose high risk strengthens residents’ perceptual risk resulting in resistance. Psychological dismay projects include mental hospital, funeral parlour, crematorium, public cemetery, etc. The other two NIMBY projects are resisted because of their environmental impact
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