Towards a better psychological satisfaction: developing a mixed multi-criteria evaluation system to urban ‘Not in my back yard’ facilities siting

Cao, Kang; Gao, Xing; Zheng, Wei; Zhai, Keyu; Zheng, Jiacheng

doi:10.1186/s40359-024-01710-z

Table 1 The development of the siting evaluation criteria system for waste incineration plants

From: Towards a better psychological satisfaction: developing a mixed multi-criteria evaluation system to urban ‘Not in my back yard’ facilities siting

Modules	Types	Evaluation criteria	Description	Standard metrics	Nature
Spatial planning	Prescriptive criteria	Land use	Whether use and scale of the land use meets the requirements of land use control and design	—	—
	Prescriptive criteria	Relationship with spatial development	Whether the siting is in line with the future development goals of urban and rural space, whether there is a security risk	—	—
	Instructive criteria	Public impact^a	The degree to which the facilities affect the physical and psychological health of the surrounding residents and the value of real estate	Evaluated by a Likert Scale with 1–5 points	Qualitative criterion
		Land size	Whether the site has room for future development	Site land area (units: square meters)	Quantitative criterion
		Industrial impact	The adverse effects of facilities on surrounding industries	Evaluated by a Likert Scale with 1–5 points	Qualitative criterion
		Landscape impact	The adverse effects of the facility on the surrounding landscape	Evaluated by a Likert Scale with 1–5 points	Qualitative criterion
Environmental protection	Prescriptive criteria	Ecological environment sensitivity	Whether consistent with the regulatory requirements for natural, ecological and environmentally sensitive areas	—	—
	Instructive criteria	Atmospheric environmental impacts	Evaluation the extent of the impact on local air pollution levels	Value added of atmospheric environmental pollution (in ppm)	Quantitative criterion
	Instructive criteria	Noises	Assess the extent of the impact on local noise	Value added (in decibels) based on background noise level	Quantification criteria
Construction-operations	Prescriptive criteria	Terrain	Whether the site meets terrain-defining conditions	—	—
	Prescriptive criteria	Geology	Whether the site meets the conditions stipulated in engineering geology	—	—
	Instructive criteria	Land costs	Land costs required for construction, including sites and supporting land (e.g. road acquisition)	Land collection fees, including demolition compensation costs (units: 10,000 CNY)	Quantitative criterion
		Construction investment	Incinerator construction costs	Includes site levelling, facilities and engineering construction costs (units: 10,000 CNY)	Quantitative criterion
		Infrastructure support	The costs associated with the supporting of infrastructure such as water, electricity and roads	Distance from site to water, electricity and road infrastructure (in meters)	Quantitative criterion
		Shipping costs^b	The transportation cost of domestic waste to the incinerator for disposal, and of residues to landfills after incineration	Distance between incinerator and landfill (in meters)	Quantitative criterion
		Running costs	The cost of management, operation, etc	Including waste incineration treatment, equipment maintenance, daily management costs (single: 10,000 CNY)	Quantitative criterion
Socio- psychology	Instructive criteria	Public perception	Public opposition around the facility is under pressure	Evaluated by a Likert Scale with 1–5 points	Qualitative criterion

In the public impact, industrial impact, and landscape impact assessments, the degree of impact is proportional to the size of the score. For the public perception assessment, the pressure from public opposition is proportional to the size of the score
^aCriteria for public impact. If the site’s spatial features are relatively homogeneous, the criterion can also be measured by population and residential land area. Accordingly, the nature of the criterion is transformed into a quantitative criterion. We applied qualitative evaluation in this case because the spatial features were largely heterogeneous and considered the surrounding area’s future development. This also indicates that different measures need to be taken appropriate to the real situation in the specific criteria assessment
^bTransport costs criteria. The transportation cost of incineration plant mainly includes two aspects. One aspect is the transportation cost of garbage collection and transportation to incineration plant and the other is the transportation cost of transportation of residue after incineration treatment to landfill for sanitary landfill. This cost is measured by the distance of transport, namely the distance converted into garbage collection and transportation and the distance of the debris cleared to landfill. Due to objective conditions, the transportation cost in this case study is measured only by the distance from the landfill to where the residue is collected

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