Public perception and attitude towards chemical industry park in Dalian, Bohai Rim

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	Public perception and attitude towards chemical industry park in Dalian, Bohai Rim
	Chen, Chunci; He, Guizhen; Zhang, Lei; Lu, Yonglong
刊名	ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
	2018-04-01
卷号	235 页码:825-835
关键词	Public perception Chemical industry park Public acceptance Information disclosure Environmental risk
ISSN号	0269-7491
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Recent decade has witnessed accelerating expansion of chemical industry and increasing conflicts between the local citizens, governmental authorities and project developers, especially in some coastal and port cities in China. Development and transformation of chemical industrial parks has been adopted as a national initiative recently. However, there is a paucity of research examining public perspectives on chemical industrial parks and their risks. Aiming to understand public perception, attitude, and response and the factors underlying the support/acceptance of chemical industry park, this paper investigated 418 residents neighboring to two chemical industrial parks, Dalian in Bohai Rim through face-to-face questionnaire survey. The results showed the knowledge of the respondents on the chemical industrial parks development was very limited. The respondents had complex perceptions on the environmental impacts, risks control, social-economic benefits, and problem awareness. The current levels of information disclosure and public participation were very low. The central governmental official (44.3%) was the most trustworthy group by the respondents. Only 5.5% and 23.2% of the respondents supported the construction of a new CIP nearby and far away their homes, whilst 13% thought new CIP project as acceptable. The spearman correlation analysis results showed a strong NIMBY effect (Not In My Backyard). Factor analysis results demonstrated five latent factors: knowledge, benefit, information, trust, and participation. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated how socio-demographic differences and five latent factors might impact on the support/acceptance of the chemical industrial parks. Education level, trust, information, and participation were significant predictors of public support/acceptance level. This study contributes to our limited knowledge and understanding of public sentiments to the chemical industry parks in China. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/40631]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Chunci,He, Guizhen,Zhang, Lei,et al. Public perception and attitude towards chemical industry park in Dalian, Bohai Rim[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,2018,235:825-835.
APA	Chen, Chunci,He, Guizhen,Zhang, Lei,&Lu, Yonglong.(2018).Public perception and attitude towards chemical industry park in Dalian, Bohai Rim.ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,235,825-835.
MLA	Chen, Chunci,et al."Public perception and attitude towards chemical industry park in Dalian, Bohai Rim".ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 235(2018):825-835.