Journal of Guangxi Teachers Education University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) ›› 2015, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (6): 68-72.doi: 10.16088/j.issn.1001-6597.2015.06.012

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On the NIMBY and Its Countermeasure from the Perspective of Environmental Justice

LIU Hai-long   

  1. Research Center of Environment and Development, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
  • Online:2015-11-10 Published:2018-12-18

Abstract: NIMBY (not in one’s backyard) is a concept in the study of environment behavior, and originates from the change of living environment. NIMBY can be defined as such an activity that citizens maintain and fight for their environmental rights and interests. Therefore, NIMBY is of some justice. First, the environmental right of citizens determines their choices and decisions in their environmental participation; second, citizens’ duty of environmental protection determines that they can resist the facilities construction against the environment. However, NIMBY has certain limitations. Both NIMBY of extreme individualism and of extreme environmentalism are unjust. Only by the orientation of environmental justice can NIMBY’s motives be eliminated so as to fundamentally avoid NIMBY. It is, at first, to clear the environmental right and its boundary to justify the recognition; secondly, to improve the environmental compensation scientifically and comprehensively to justify the distribution; finally, to shift the mode of NIMBY’s facilities construction to justify the procedure.

Key words: environmental justice, NIMBY, environmental right, property, countermeasure

CLC Number: 

  • C912.68
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