Are LULUs still enduringly objectionable?
We asked a national sample of 651 US residents about the feelings, emotions, images and colours they associated with nearby waste management, energy, industrial facilities and other big developments commonly regarded as locally unwanted land uses (LULUs). The respondents showed the
expected dislike of them, picking ‘bad’, ‘fear’, ‘polluted’, red and black to describe them more than ‘safe’, ‘secure’, ‘jobs’ and other positive descriptors and images. Waste management facilities, especially nuclear
ones, had the most negative labels, and coal and gas energy facilities had fewer than anticipated. This survey occurred prior to the events in the Fukushima plant in Japan. However, even before those events LULU concerns endured and nuclear facilities and chemical and metal plants were the
most distressing to the public as a whole.
Keywords: LULUs; NIMBY; TOADS; affect heuristic
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, 33 Livingston AvenueNew Brunswick,NJ,08901-1958, USA 2: Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment, PMB 407702, 2301 Vanderbilt PlaceNashville,TN,37240, USA
Publication date: 01 July 2012
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