School of Economics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200237, China.
School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China.
J Environ Manage. 2020 Mar 15;258:109946. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109946. Epub 2020 Jan 7.
Environmental pollutants generated by waste incineration plants, such as heavy metals and dioxin, make surrounding residents very sensitive to the construction of such facilities. This sensitivity and anxiety of residents may induce group events, which further leads to the emergence of social risks. Based on risk perception theory, a total of 320 questionnaires was designed and handed out to residents neighboring to Jiangqiao Waste Incineration Plant in Shanghai, China to detect the factors affecting risk attitude toward such plants. Using ordered logit model, it is found that there are four decisive factors including impact on health, information cognitive, objective characteristics, and the attitude of the neighbors. These factors have different influence on resident risk attitudes, in which the attitude of the neighbors is of most significance, followed by the economic-geography characteristics of residents, the information cognitive has minimal impact.
垃圾焚烧厂产生的环境污染物，如重金属和二恶英，使周围居民对这类设施的建设非常敏感。居民的这种敏感性和焦虑可能会引发群体事件，进而导致社会风险的出现。基于风险感知理论，共设计了 320 份问卷，并分发给中国上海江桥垃圾焚烧厂附近的居民，以检测影响他们对这类工厂风险态度的因素。通过有序逻辑回归模型发现，有四个决定性因素，包括对健康的影响、信息认知、客观特征和邻居的态度。这些因素对居民的风险态度有不同的影响，其中邻居的态度最为重要，其次是居民的经济地理特征，信息认知的影响最小。
