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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"NIMBY"”.
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Effective Messaging for Tackling NIMBY to Accelerate Decarbonization
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of communication strategies in changing the public perceptions of energy and other facilities that are typically perceived as environmental and health risks. We use the existing US-wide survey data in which the participants were asked about the risks of …
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Siting Community Wind Farms: An Investigation of NIMBY
… is often attributed to the not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) phenomenon. In this study we employ a discrete choice experiment to investigate public preferences for different characteristics of a local wind farm. We investigate NIMBY by first controlling for characteristics that might cause local …
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NIMBY Effects on Low-Income Housing Policy: A Case of Two Cities
… officials and housing developers used to address NIMBY concerns about low income housing developments. I conducted interview research with planning commission members, their staffs, and housing developers from two cities. I wanted to understand what strategies the interviewees employed to address …
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A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND NIMBY IN A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTY
… of cities as well as exclusion brought on by NIMBY occurrences. Implications for macro Social Work practice included community organizing and policy advocacy at various governmental levels. The termination of the study did not result in the study participants planning to move forward with the …
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The NIMBY Syndrome and Low-Cost Manufactured Housing Developments: Can Landscape Architecture Help Overcome Community Opposition?
Decent housing available to the working class in America is in very short supply. Manufactured housing could help to meet this basic need. But community groups and politicians often reject manufactured housing because they fear it will have a negative impact upon property values and the aesthetic …
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Already in my back yard : community opposition to social service agencies in gentrifying neighborhoods
… agencies in their neighborhoods. Traditional NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) literature outlines not only the forces at work in NIMBY dynamics, but also proven strategies that social service agencies have used in order to overcome such opposition. There is little research, however, on the "flip …
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“Not In my backyard”: examining the influence of offender program participation, release plan, and personal proximity on mock parole decisions and comfort levels
… the presence of the Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) effect. Addressing barriers such as the NIMBY effect and identifying factors that promote community acceptance are crucial for fostering compassionate, evidence-informed attitudes and stronger support for reintegration efforts.
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Sociopolitical challenges to the siting of facilities with perceived environmental risks
… historically been due to not-in-my-back- yard (NIMBY) opposition on the part of more affluent neighborhoods but, more recently, can also be attributed to minority and low-income communities' pursuit of environmental justice. An emerging technology for which siting is likely to present a …
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The construction of environmental justice: Warren County, North Carolina
… frame changed from ""Not In My Backyard"" (NIMBY) to ""environmental racism."" The fear of loosing local control over a land use decision was the conceptual link between the broad injustice frame of environmental racism and the earlier, more narrow, NIMBY frame. Environmental racism was the …
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The Great Appalachian Flood of 1977: Prisoners, Labor, and Community Perceptions in Wise, Virginia
… residential community members in Wise expressed NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) attitudes toward the prison facility and incarcerated population at Unit 18. On the other hand, local business owners who directly benefited from disaster relief work and prison labor changed their opinions about Unit 18 …
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The Evolution of Urban Community Development Corporations in Response to Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities
… cities. In Richmond, increasing competition, NIMBY and staff retention were other barriers. In Atlanta, securing community buy-in, the permitting process, and the growing need for affordable housing were other barriers. Increasing public interest in affordable housing, the need for new housing …
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Bidding AD(ie)U to homelessness?
… early stages, these pilot programs seem to defy NIMBY expectations and offer a window into possible strategies for creating low-income housing. Simultaneously, the pilots raise questions around shifting responsibility towards individual homeowners, combatting longstanding stigma, and increasing …
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Protest Space: A Study of Technology Choice, Perception of Risk, and Space Exploration
… use of three acronyms: Not in My Backyard (NIMBY), Not on Planet Earth (NOPE), and Not [in] Outer Space Either (NOSE). The anti-space nuclear power protest is predicted to have significant consequences for NASA's planned human missions to Mars because of NASA's reliance on nuclear …
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Three essays in labor, environmental, and behavioral economics
… land uses have been termed not-in-my-backyard or NIMBY projects. I use wind farms as the type of NIMBY project to test the ideas in the latter two papers. In the first paper, I attempt to isolate one piece of NAFTA’s effect on wage inequality. I match annual industry wage and employment data with …
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Examining the Economic Impact of Anti-Warehouse Development Policies in California: A Case Study of the San Diego Market
… growth of e-commerce, while also exploring the NIMBY phenomenon and its influence on community opposition to developments, including a discussion of Bill 98 and its legislative implications. A specific focus on the industrial market in Southern California reveals important insights into job …
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"Don't Destroy Our Neighborhood": Neighborhood Imaginaries and the Politics of Upzoning / Displacement through Development: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Residential Eviction and Capital Investment
These papers examine different facets of urban land use change in the Seattle region, exploring both the causes and consequences of specific development patterns. The first paper utilizes Natural Language Processing techniques on public comment data to reveal patterns of support and opposition …
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Manufactured housing: an assessment of community attitudes
This study examined the opinions of 552 residents of rural Virginia regarding acceptance of manufactured homes, formerly known as mobile homes, and their occupants. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent respondents' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, innovativeness, …