Directing the Diffusion of Public Opinions in Incidents with Not-in-My-Back-Yard Projects: An Evolutionary Perspective. (28th December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Xiaofeng; Wu, Xiaoling; Qiu, Yumin; Cheng, Shuping
• Other Names: Ben Makhlouf Abdellatif Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Complexity. Volume 2022(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-12-28
• Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems -- Periodicals; Complexity (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; 003
• DOI: 10.1155/2022/5879010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1076-2787

Abstract

Abstract : How should the public administrative department direct the diffusion of public opinions in a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) crisis? This paper first analyzes the macroevolutionary characteristics of the public opinion associated with a NIMBY crisis. We then examine the perceptive interactions among individuals towards NIMBY projects from a microscopic perspective and develop an evolutionary game model (i.e., replicator dynamics) to describe the interactions among individuals. We also use information entropy and dynamic equations to construct an interaction entropy model and a dynamic equation to capture administrative-department-led public opinion. Through examining the existence and stability of the evolutionary equilibrium of these models, we analyze the evolution of NIMBY public opinion.