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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"not in my back yard"”.
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Already in my back yard : community opposition to social service agencies in gentrifying neighborhoods
Communities often object to the siting of controversial social service 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 …
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Sociopolitical challenges to the siting of facilities with perceived environmental risks
Difficulties are often experienced in the siting of facilities that serve a public need but also pose localized safety, health and/or environmental risks. This has historically been due to not-in-my-back- yard (NIMBY) opposition on the part of more affluent neighborhoods but, more recently, can …
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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, …
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Mobility and turbulence in the socio-environnmental flows of the European Union: explaining resistance to wind energy policy in the spatial planning process
Considering public policy as a socio-environmental flow this study follows the European Union’s wind energy “policy chain”, from formulation to implementation, in order to understand the inner dialectics that influence the success or failure of such projects in two south-west counties in Ireland. …