Environmental Conflict Risk Assessment Based on AHP-FCE: A Case of Jiuhua Waste Incineration Power Plant Project

Abstract

The risk assessment of environmental conflicts has been an integral part of measuring the operability of projects as well as the happiness of the affected population. With the current situation of environmental crises, environmental conflict has an effect on society. In order to maintain the stable development of society, we used the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and the analytic hierarchy process to study the risk of a population being affected by a project producing environmental pollution. Furthermore, we provided an approach that had the potential to quantify as well as give a risk assessment of the environmental impact. The results classified 0.397, 0.202, and 0.295 as medium, relatively high, and highest risk, respectively. We deemed that the conflict mode between people, government, and enterprise is actually the confrontation between benefit gainers and benefit losers to a great extent. In subtle ways, this conflict mode has several roles. The solution of environmental conflicts lies in how the roles of government and enterprises change and how the interests of the public are considered. Environmental risks can be safely mitigated without violence by managing relationships between people, governments and businesses.

An Application of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process in Risk Evaluation Model

“…And four judgment matrixes of the second class index can be calculated through the expert evaluation method. The sources of the applied equations were based on the previous literature of FCE (Liao et al, 2018;Pu et al, 2018;Lyu et al, 2019). Bi(i = 1, 2, 3, 4) is the evaluation vector of the factor layer (second class index):…”

Bayesian-Based NIMBY Crisis Transformation Path Discovery for Municipal Solid Waste Incineration in China

“…Achieving substantive public participation requires government guidance and regulation. Therefore, the scientific arrangement of the participants, topic for discussion, procedures and scope is the necessary link to ensure the substantive participation of the public and public participation is not only essential at the site selection stage, but also should contribute to the construction, operation and abandonment stage to help decision-makers establish the most apposite solutions satisfying the broad interests of society [32].…”

“…While in relation to quantitative research, scholars were keen on positivist methodologies that utilized structured interviews [30], questionnaires [31] and other methods to collect data, and then trended with a statistical analysis. Meanwhile, some scholars proposed a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods for the assessment of environmental conflict risk, as evidenced by the study of Liao et al [32], who put forward a combined method (analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation) and well-presented evaluation results, as a reinforcement of the conventional qualitative and quantitative methods. Surprisingly, rarely considered is the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods as a NIMBY crisis research method.…”

“…People have been unable to solve a modern crisis through past experience and paradigm [45]. As a result, exploring how to realize the NIMBY crisis transformation caused by MSWI is a research area that has not been fully developed in the literature [32]. It is well known that crisis is composed of danger and opportunity.…”

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