Using the Language of NIMBY: A topic for research, not an activity for researchers

Burningham, Kate

doi:10.1080/135498300113264

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“…Strachan 2 These are; i) a problem of democracy as the planning process is dominated by an unrepresentative minority; ii) that support for wind power is qualified and specific proposals engage such qualifications; and iii) individuals are in favour of wind power but not prepared to sacrifice their self interest in the case of a specific proposal i.e. as NIMBYs The idea of oppositional 'deviancy' is based on the notion that their views and action do not immediately appear to be consistent, rational or objective -key assumptions that underlie most empirical studies.. 4 For example, Lake 1993;Burningham 2000;Ellis 2004;Wolsink 1994;. Kemp (1990 goes so far to suggest that NIMBYism is "an oversimplification of strongly held environmental, political, and moral views of deceptively fecund breadth and depth", (p.1247).…”

Section: Public Acceptance Of Wind Farms -The Limits To Existing Resementioning

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Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

Ellis

Barry

Robinson

2007

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper explores the nature of public acceptance of wind farms by investigating the discourses of support and objection to a proposed offshore scheme. It reviews research into opposition to wind farms, noting previous criticisms that this has tended to provide descriptive rather than explanatory insights and as a result, has not effectively informed the policy debate. One explanation is that much of this research has been conceived within a positivist research frame, which is inadequate in dealing with the subjectivity and value-basis of public acceptance of wind farm development. The paper then takes a case study of an offshore wind farm proposal in Northern Ireland and applies Q-Methodology to identify the dominant discourse of support and objection. It is argued that this provides new insights into the nature of wind farm conflicts, points to a number or recommendatiosn for policy functions of an example of how this methodology can act as a potential bridge between positivist and post-positivist approaches to policy analysis.

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Section: Public Acceptance Of Wind Farms -The Limits To Existing Resementioning

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Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

Ellis

Barry

Robinson

2007

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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251

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“…Calls for research that focuses on the use of ascriptions of NIMBYism in general have been made for some time (e.g., Burningham 2000;Gibson 2005Wexler 1996, and more recently specifically in relation to RET siting, Bell et al indicate that it is ''important to study the discursive use of 'NIMBY' in wind energy politics '' (2013, 124). Similarly, Wright and Nerlich (2006) conceptualize deficit models as ''culturally available interpretative repertoires'' (333) and argue that ''work is .…”

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An Array of Deficits: Unpacking NIMBY Discourses in Wind Energy Developers' Conceptualizations of Their Local Opponents

Burningham

Barnett

Walker

2014

Society & Natural Resources

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“…Studies of citizen engagement in planning decisions have undermined the rationale for the use of the acronym NIMBY (not in my back yard) to condemn the planning objections of community groups as selfish and ill-informed (Burningham 2000;Wolsink 2006;Devine-Wright 2012). They have demonstrated that resident opposition to housing may be guided by broader societal concerns such as sustainability and social justice (Matthews, Bramley & Hastings 2014).…”

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It’s Housebuilding But Not as We Know It: The Impact of Neighbourhood Planning on Development in England

Bradley

2017

Building Information Modelling, Building Performance, Design and Smart Construction

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Community opposition to house-building has been cited as one of the key factors in the decline in new housing supply over the last decade. The policy of neighbourhood planning was introduced to England in 2011 to overcome this opposition by devolving limited powers to communities to influence development. It was anticipated that giving communities the right to draw up neighbourhood development plans would secure their compliance with a pro-growth agenda and increase the number of sites allocated for housing. This paper explores the impact of neighbourhood planning in England on housing development and analyses its lessons for the state strategy of localism. It argues that neighbourhood planning is emerging as the proponent of sustainability and social purpose in the English housing market, in conflict with the corporate interests of a liberalised housing development market.

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Using the Language of NIMBY: A topic for research, not an activity for researchers

Cited by 248 publications

References 14 publications

Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

An Array of Deficits: Unpacking NIMBY Discourses in Wind Energy Developers' Conceptualizations of Their Local Opponents

It’s Housebuilding But Not as We Know It: The Impact of Neighbourhood Planning on Development in England

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