title: Risk, Environment and Society: Ongoing Debates, Current Issues and Future Prospects (Issues in Society)
author:  Piet Strydom 
description: Piet Strydom is Statutory Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a former founder-director of the Centre for European Social Research, Cork, where he was responsible for a variety of collaborative EU research projects. Having published noted articles in journals such as Political Studies, Theory, Culture and Society, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Social Theory and Current Sociology, he most recently presented his research programme in a major work entitled Discourse and Knowledge (2000).
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  Sustainability 2020, 12, 2723; doi:10.3390/su12072723 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability 
  Article 
  Risk Evaluation of “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” Conflict 
  Potential in Facilities Group: A Case Study of 
  Chemical Park in Xuwei New District, China 
  Yongyou Nie, Jinbu Zhao, Yiyi Zhang and Jizhi Zhou* 
  School of Economics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China;  
  nyy2000@shu.edu.cn (Y.N.);zhaojin302@shu.edu.cn(J.Z.); zoeyzhang_1222@163.com (Y.Z.) 
  * Correspondence: Jizhi.zhou@t.shu.edu.cn; Tel.: +86-21-66137746 
  Received: 12 December 2019; Accepted: 23 March 2020; Published: 30 March 2020 
  Abstract: The social risk of chemical industry park projects attracts much attention, as they are 
  perceived to yield strong environmental risks. This paper systematically evaluates the social risk of 
  Xuwei Chemical Park in China, which was investigated as an example to guide the risk control 
  strategy of conflict in industrial facilities for developing countries. The results show that residents 