TY - JOUR A2 - Ben Makhlouf, Abdellatif AU - Liu, Xiaofeng AU - Wu, Xiaoling AU - Qiu, Yumin AU - Cheng, Shuping PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/28 TI - Directing the Diffusion of Public Opinions in Incidents with Not-in-My-Back-Yard Projects: An Evolutionary Perspective SP - 5879010 VL - 2022 AB - 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. SN - 1076-2787 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5879010 DO - 10.1155/2022/5879010 JF - Complexity PB - Hindawi KW - ER -