Definition of "nimbyism"

All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.

2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848

And in the case of New York, NIMBYism is ultimately the reason a great global city has become a one-industry town, leaving it unusually vulnerable to pandemic-driven economic dislocations.

2022 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Why a Blue City Is Feeling the Blues”, in The New York Times‎