In plain language...the motivation of residents who want to protect their turf. More formally, NIMBY refers to the protectionist attitudes of and oppositional tactics adopted by community groups facing an unwelcome development in their neighbourhood... residents usually concede that these 'noxious' facilities are necessary, but not near their homes, hence the term 'not in my back yard'. (Dear 1992:288)
‘The problem with the use of NIMBY is that rarely is it defined the same way by different researchers. In fact, it is sometime used as a catchall term to label the opposition – or worse, to imply that citizens have illegitimate or irrational selfish (or narrow) reasons for opposing facilities’(Hunter and Leyden 1995:602)
‘any citizen, who tries to defend their home and their neighbourhood from plans which would destroy the view, pollute the environment, overload the transport network, upset the ecosystem and knock £50,000 off the value of their house. When it comes to our own back yard, we are all nimbys, every nimby deserves respect for standing up to corporate and government giants’ (2005:1) Frontispiece to Anthony Jay’s ‘Not in Our Backyard: How to run a protest campaign and save the neighbourhood’ (2005)
‘developers and other industry proponents need to place more emphasis on addressing the concerns that citizens actually express, and less emphasis on the assumption that those who oppose their projects are part of a overarching NIMBY syndrome’(Hunter & Leyden 1995: 601)
APTSec recommends that you read the full paper (as noted below) from which these quotes are taken click here. A section of the paper describes other 'related' acronyms and states:
"We conclude that all of these acronyms are over-simplifications of complex responses to land use decisions. Their use obfuscates understanding of the contexts, processes and motivations at stake and threatens to exacerbate conflict and misunderstanding between the parties involved. Our position is that researchers should avoid using the use of such acronyms in favour of exploring how they are used by actors involved in such disputes, and with what consequences."
[Extracts* from: A working paper of the research project “Beyond Nimbyism: a multidisciplinary investigation of public engagement with renewable energy technologies” funded by the ESRC under the ‘Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy’ Programme Kate Burningham, Julie Barnett & Diana Thrush University of Surrey August 2006]
Further research can be found at
http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/beyond_nimbyism/deliverables/outputs.shtml
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