Environmental Perception of Residents to the Waste Facility - A Case Study of the Impacts of Su-ao Landfill
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Li, Ying-Hung
Abstract
The waste facility, though might bring negative impact to its neighboring areas, is a necessity to the modern society. The location decision of the waste facility is an important issue to investigate. The conflict of the establishment of waste disposal facilities and their neighboring residents becomes one of the focal issues that the industries, governments and research communities pay attention to. he study is an attempt to tackle with siting problem of public waste facilities through analyzing the environmental perception of local community residents. From the “Man-Land Tradition” viewpoint, the study investigates the attitudes of the residents toward the establishment of the waste disposal facilities adjacent to their communities, and how they react and adjust to those facilities.his study takes two communities of “Long-De” and “Ding-Liao” in Suao, I-Lan as cases to examine the impacts of Su-ao Landfill on their environments. Base on the approach of behavioral geography and environmental perception, the methodology of this study uses questionnaires survey to analyze the environmental perception and responses of local community residents on the NIMBY effects.ur results are as followed. (1) The major elements of the perception for the local residents towards the local landfill sites, using the principal component analysis, are "compensation and social relations", “spatial allocation,” “negative impact,” “social justice" and “decision-making mechanism.”While the “health”, “compensation,” and “mechanism of decision” are of significant correlation in Pearson’s test. (2) As in the aspect of environmental impact, the local residents found significant differences in air/river/water sources pollution, traffic, vision degradation, and personal health. Among those air pollution, river/water sources pollution, visual degradation and personal health had a greater gap. (3) The residents near the landfill sites appealed to the governments either by their representatives or directly by themselves. The protestors are consisted of the local self-help groups and individual local residents. We found the protestors are significantly different in gender, age, and education levels, while not significant in residence and occupation. (4) As for the communication between and the Government, only half of the residents were aware of or attended the public hearing. Most of the residents are not satisfied with the compensation and support the referendum on the landfill site decisions.o improve the perception of the local residents, this study suggests the emphasis on the compensation mechanism improvement, public participation, and mitigation of public health concerns.
Subjects
waste facility
landfill
environmental perception
I-Lan
Type
thesis
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