Chen Jiabin, He Xinyao, Cui Caiyun, Xia Bo, Skitmore Martin, Liu Yong
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, 928, No. 2 Street, Xiasha, Jianggan District, Hangzhou, China.
School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar;30(12):34952-34965. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-24701-2. Epub 2022 Dec 16.
Public acceptance is important for the provision of potentially hazardous facilities and may be affected by many factors such as perceived risk/benefit/stress/fairness and public trust. In this study, the underlying mechanism behind the influence of perceived stress on public acceptance of waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators was explored by structural equation modeling of a face-to-face questionnaire survey of 1066 urban residents in three regional central cities in China. The results indicate that, firstly, the perceived stress of the laypeople has an impact on their acceptance by influencing risk/fairness they perceived and public trust. Secondly, the paths of influence of individual perceptions on acceptance differ between cities with different economic, cultural, and social characteristics. Perceived stress mainly affects public acceptance through perceived risk in the eastern residents while perceived stress mainly affects public acceptance through public trust in the western residents. The findings clarify the theoretical role of perceived stress in shaping laypeople's acceptance of potentially hazardous facilities which are of value for both governments and owners in siting potentially hazardous facilities.
公众接受度对于建设潜在危险设施很重要，并且可能受到许多因素的影响，如感知到的风险/收益/压力/公平性以及公众信任。在本研究中，通过对中国三个区域中心城市的1066名城市居民进行面对面问卷调查，并采用结构方程模型，探讨了感知压力对公众接受垃圾焚烧发电厂（WTE）的潜在影响机制。结果表明，首先，外行人的感知压力通过影响他们所感知的风险/公平性和公众信任来影响他们的接受度。其次，不同经济、文化和社会特征的城市中，个体认知对接受度的影响路径有所不同。在东部居民中，感知压力主要通过感知风险影响公众接受度；而在西部居民中，感知压力主要通过公众信任影响公众接受度。研究结果阐明了感知压力在塑造外行人对潜在危险设施接受度方面的理论作用，这对政府和潜在危险设施选址中的业主均具有价值。
