Syndrom NIMBY jako wyzwanie dla jednostek samorządu

Selected problems related to NIMBY-type conflicts are presented in this article. These conflicts result from local inhabitants’ opposition to location, in the vicinity of their place of living, of investments which they perceive as burdensome. A spatial image of NIMBY-type conflicts occurrence in Poland (excluding medium-size and big cities) is presented as a result of regional and local press query which was carried out for the period 01.2007-03.2014. The study show, that the most frequent objects of inhabitants’ protests were investments in renewable energy and road infrastructure. The following issues are also set out in the article: legal basis of unwanted investments’ location, stages of beginning of conflicts, effects of conflicts. It turned out, on the basis of the study on local conflicts in 116 communes, that there was slighty more cases of conflicts which ended with abandonment of project than conflicts which ended with project realisation. Different forms of local authorities’ response to the protests against controversial investments were identified, including activities directed at inhabitants or activities related to administrative and planning proceedings. This article contains results of research which were published in 2016 in a book of Geographical Studies series, written by M. Bednarek-Szczepańska and K. Dmochowska-Dudek, The NIMBY syndrome in rural areas of Poland. Specificity and determinants of conflicts on the location of unwanted investments. dr Maria Bednarek-Szczepańska, adiunkt w Zakładzie Geografii Wsi i Rozwoju Lokalnego Instytutu Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Polskiej Akademii Nauk; specjalizuje się w geografii wsi, problematyce rozwoju lokalnego i konfliktów wokół lokalizacji inwestycji; kontakt: Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PAN, ul. Twarda 51/55, Warszawa, e-mail: bednarek@twarda.pan.pl dr Karolina Dmochowska-Dudek, adiunkt w Katedrze Geografii Regionalnej i Społecznej Wydziału Nauk Geograficznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego; specjalizuje się w geografii społecznej, GIS, problematyce syndromu NIMBY; kontakt: Wydział Nauk Geograficznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, ul. Kopcińskiego 31, 90-131 Łódź, e-mail: karolina.dmochowska@geo.uni.lodz.pl