The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy Pilot
As a management strategy, community participation is to implement the coordinated development of communities and protected areas. In recent years, the development of China’s national parks has faced many challenges related to human and environmental constraints. Community participation plays an esse...
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| description | As a management strategy, community participation is to implement the coordinated development of communities and protected areas. In recent years, the development of China’s national parks has faced many challenges related to human and environmental constraints. Community participation plays an essential role in solving such issues. As one of the critical indicators to test community participation, community residents’ willingness to participate significantly impacts community participation in constructing national parks. As such, this study was conducted using the extended model of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the structural equation model. Taking the Tianzhu county and Sunan Yugu county as examples, and based on 230 valid questionnaires, we investigated the impacts of the Qilian Mountain National Park System Pilot Area on community residents’ willingness to participate and provided relevant suggestions for amendments. The results indicated that, for the Qilian Mountain National Park System Pilot Area, behavioral attitude, subjective norms, and perceptual behavior control positively impacted the participation intention of community residents. At the same time, the variables mentioned above positively impacted the implementation of the participation intention of community residents. Specifically, the order of impacts is as follows: perceptual behavior control (path coefficient = 0.89) > participation behavior attitude (path coefficient = 0.68) > related impact system (path coefficient = 0.41) > subjective norms (path coefficient = 0.38). According to the results, we put forward three suggestions: (1) providing relevant instructions and guidance on various methods to ensure that the pilot policies on the construction of national parks can form a positive relationship with the participation intentions of the community residents; (2) making full use of the function of perceptual behavior control, so the subjective initiative of community residents can be maximized, thereby enhancing the willingness of community residents to participate in constructing national parks; and (3) strengthening the impacts of subjective norms, enhancing the soft culture of national park communities’ participation, reshaping the community cultural landscapes with the goal of constructing national parks, and establishing community residents’ sense of honor as the builders of national parks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-44b6d4e65af84a65a409ab8c49c9b70b2023-11-23T20:42:07ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2022-01-0111217010.3390/land11020170The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy PilotLiqi Jia0Junqing Wei1Zibin Wang2School of Design Art, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, ChinaSchool of Design Art, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, ChinaSchool of Educational Science and Technology, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou 730030, ChinaAs a management strategy, community participation is to implement the coordinated development of communities and protected areas. In recent years, the development of China’s national parks has faced many challenges related to human and environmental constraints. Community participation plays an essential role in solving such issues. As one of the critical indicators to test community participation, community residents’ willingness to participate significantly impacts community participation in constructing national parks. As such, this study was conducted using the extended model of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the structural equation model. Taking the Tianzhu county and Sunan Yugu county as examples, and based on 230 valid questionnaires, we investigated the impacts of the Qilian Mountain National Park System Pilot Area on community residents’ willingness to participate and provided relevant suggestions for amendments. The results indicated that, for the Qilian Mountain National Park System Pilot Area, behavioral attitude, subjective norms, and perceptual behavior control positively impacted the participation intention of community residents. At the same time, the variables mentioned above positively impacted the implementation of the participation intention of community residents. Specifically, the order of impacts is as follows: perceptual behavior control (path coefficient = 0.89) > participation behavior attitude (path coefficient = 0.68) > related impact system (path coefficient = 0.41) > subjective norms (path coefficient = 0.38). According to the results, we put forward three suggestions: (1) providing relevant instructions and guidance on various methods to ensure that the pilot policies on the construction of national parks can form a positive relationship with the participation intentions of the community residents; (2) making full use of the function of perceptual behavior control, so the subjective initiative of community residents can be maximized, thereby enhancing the willingness of community residents to participate in constructing national parks; and (3) strengthening the impacts of subjective norms, enhancing the soft culture of national park communities’ participation, reshaping the community cultural landscapes with the goal of constructing national parks, and establishing community residents’ sense of honor as the builders of national parks.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/170Qilian Mountain National Parkcommunity participationTPB extended modelballoon dessertstructural equation model |
| spellingShingle | Liqi Jia Junqing Wei Zibin Wang The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy Pilot Land Qilian Mountain National Park community participation TPB extended model balloon dessert structural equation model |
| title | The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy Pilot |
| title_full | The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy Pilot |
| title_fullStr | The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy Pilot |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy Pilot |
| title_short | The Intention of Community Participation in the Qilian Mountain National Park Policy Pilot |
| title_sort | intention of community participation in the qilian mountain national park policy pilot |
| topic | Qilian Mountain National Park community participation TPB extended model balloon dessert structural equation model |
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