Abstract: The problem of not in my backyard(NIMBY) caused by the frequent environmental pollution in the industrial development zone has caused certain obstacles to economic development and social stability, among which industrial enterprises are the main NIMBY facilities. At present, studies on this kind of NIMBY effect as well as the quantitative evaluation method for the size of NIMBY effect need to be improved. This paper takes the Hefei High-tech Zone as an example and industrial enterprises in the zone as the research object, and proposes a new evaluation method for the NIMBY effect. In the evaluation system, the rationality of enterprise planning and layout and the atmospheric environmental protection distance are added to the evaluation indicators of the NIMBY effect. The fuzzy best-worst method (BWM) is used to calculate the weight of the indicators, and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) is used to evaluate the NIMBY effects of different industrial enterprises. The results show that risk perception and atmospheric environmental protection distance are the most important factors affecting the NIMBY effect. Sensitivity analysis indicates that the evaluation method has good reliability and robustness, which provides ideas and basis for decision-makers to solve the problem of NIMBY in industrial development zones.
Keywords: industrial development zones; not in my backyard(NIMBY) effect; best-worst method (BWM); technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution(TOPSIS)