NIMBY Syndrome and Facility Siting
摘要
In public facility construction procedures, NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome has always been a focus of planning practitioners and researchers. By focusing the study on the procedures related to site location of Taiwan's privatized electric power plants, the author examines factors leading to NIMBY and how, it was settled. These include: health and property problems, environmental compensation, impact on living standard, expert-centered participation, credibility gap, and local politics. The author proceeded to frequently and intensively visit both representatives of six power plants and the people of the neighborhood of the sites. At each site we interviewed either the factory manager or the person in charge of community relations for the plant. For the local people we interviewed the community leader and the self-help group representative of the community. A total of 30 individuals participated in the survey. Next, through the Computer-Assisted-Telephone-Interview (CATI) system, the author also conducted phone interviews with an additional 260 persons, using the local phone directories as a sample source. The paper concluded that in order for a plant location proposal to be executed smoothly, it has to comply with government restrictions, actively involve the community, take into account market research and go through policy debate.