Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior
Introduction: Environmental protection is an essential issue for sustainable development, and its execution power mainly comes from individual environmental protection behavior. This study investigates the resident environmental protection behaviors and influencing factors in the ecologically fragil...
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| description | Introduction: Environmental protection is an essential issue for sustainable development, and its execution power mainly comes from individual environmental protection behavior. This study investigates the resident environmental protection behaviors and influencing factors in the ecologically fragile areas of western China based on a total of 1062 households by adopting the participatory assessment method. Then, this study used the structural equation model to empirically analyze the impact of social capital, environmental risk perception, and environmental awareness on residents’ environmental protection behavior.Outcomes: The results showed that environmental awareness is the basis for practicing environmental protection behavior, consistent with the existing research; social capital has a significant impact on residents’ environmental protection behavior, with an impact coefficient of 0.347. Hence, environmental risk perception has an indirect influence on environmental protection behavior through environmental awareness. Besides, compared with urban residents, rural residents’ environmental awareness and social capital have a stronger role in environmental protection behavior.Conclusions: The study clarified the influence path of residents’ environmental protection behavior, thus effectively providing a decision-making basis for the government to guide residents in the environmental governance system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-77f6f79046434179a91dca4955e12ada2023-09-02T13:17:30ZengAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Ecosystem Health and Sustainability2332-88782021-01-017110.1080/20964129.2021.19429961942996Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behaviorFang Su0Nini Song1Haiyang Shang2Jing Wang3Bing Xue4Shaanxi University of Science & TechnologyShaanxi University of Science & TechnologyNorthwest University of Politics and LawLanzhou University of TechnologyChinese Academy of SciencesIntroduction: Environmental protection is an essential issue for sustainable development, and its execution power mainly comes from individual environmental protection behavior. This study investigates the resident environmental protection behaviors and influencing factors in the ecologically fragile areas of western China based on a total of 1062 households by adopting the participatory assessment method. Then, this study used the structural equation model to empirically analyze the impact of social capital, environmental risk perception, and environmental awareness on residents’ environmental protection behavior.Outcomes: The results showed that environmental awareness is the basis for practicing environmental protection behavior, consistent with the existing research; social capital has a significant impact on residents’ environmental protection behavior, with an impact coefficient of 0.347. Hence, environmental risk perception has an indirect influence on environmental protection behavior through environmental awareness. Besides, compared with urban residents, rural residents’ environmental awareness and social capital have a stronger role in environmental protection behavior.Conclusions: The study clarified the influence path of residents’ environmental protection behavior, thus effectively providing a decision-making basis for the government to guide residents in the environmental governance system.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2021.1942996environmental sustainabilitysocial capitalenvironmental awareness and behaviorenvironmental risk perceptionstructural equation model |
| spellingShingle | Fang Su Nini Song Haiyang Shang Jing Wang Bing Xue Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior Ecosystem Health and Sustainability environmental sustainability social capital environmental awareness and behavior environmental risk perception structural equation model |
| title | Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior |
| title_full | Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior |
| title_fullStr | Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior |
| title_short | Effects of social capital, risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior |
| title_sort | effects of social capital risk perception and awareness on environmental protection behavior |
| topic | environmental sustainability social capital environmental awareness and behavior environmental risk perception structural equation model |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2021.1942996 |
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