The Governance Of NIMBY Conflicts:a Survey Of The Incinerator In Hangzhou

NIMBY— "Not in my back yard" originated from western countries, refers to the facility beneficial to the whole socity while has negative effects on residents in the vicinity,has received more and more attentions in urbanization and industrialization.Environmental concern is a growing rallying point for China's new generation at present and NIMBY movement has counted a string of successes for the country's nascent environmental movement. However more groups of environmental disputes, as the epitome of social conflicts, frequently rise up at present in China, which disturb the normal social order.The imbalance of cost and income of NIMBY facility is the direct and ultimate factor in causing the conflict. As trash incinerator plants belong to the kind of Public facility of serious NIMBY effects, it is often heard that metropolitan citizens take to streets to protest against the installation of them. By reviewing the development of Hangzhou Jiufeng trash incinerator and analyzing its significant factors from risk?benefit game?administrative and psychological perspective, the paper summaries up of the experience and lessons. Risk perception?benifit conflicts? institutional deficiency and mistrust and unfair psychology are the root causes of the conflicts. To solve the problem, a mechanism of social management, a reasonable and effective psychological mechanism should be formed and high technologies should be developed.The theory's value herein and innovation of this paper embody in: The residents' psychology is studied as a new perspective; mass disturbances caused by NIMBY are dissected institutionally and physically. The majority of researcher utilized different angles of risk management?conflicting science?benefit game and policy concern. The target of the paper turns from the government to the residents, explores why residents demonstrate the NIMBY syndrome and proposes several planning and management implications.