The public opinion literature examining the role of proximity and not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) attitudes in people’s judgments about energy projects has come to inconclusive findings. We argue that these mixed results are due to vast differences and significant limitations in research designs, which we mitigate through a large study (n = 16,200) of Americans’ attitudes toward energy projects. Our approach examines a diverse set of energy projects in development, explicitly compares the attitudes of individuals living in the vicinity of projects with those farther away, and includes the careful measurement of the NIMBY concept. The analyses show little evidence that proximity in general or NIMBY objections in particular are important determinants of project support. Instead, other factors are more important, including perceptions of local environmental quality, risk orientation, concern about climate change, and trust in energy companies.

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邻近，NIMBYism和能源基础设施的公共支持

在人们对能源项目的判断中，研究接近性和后院态度（NIMBY）的作用的舆论文献尚无定论。我们认为，这些混合的结果是由于研究设计的巨大差异和重大局限性所致，而我们通过进行大规模研究来缓解这些局限性（n = 16,200）美国人对能源项目的态度。我们的方法研究了开发中的各种能源项目，将居住在项目附近的人们的态度与居住在附近的人们的态度进行了明确比较，并包括了对NIMBY概念的仔细衡量。分析表明，几乎没有证据表明总体上接近或特别是反对反对意见是项目支持的重要决定因素。相反，其他因素更为重要，包括对当地环境质量的看法，风险导向，对气候变化的关注以及对能源公司的信任。