Governance activities, villagers' awareness, characteristics, and willingness in rural environmental participation: evidence from Fujian, China

Xiao Yu, Peng Wang and Yong Li ()
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Xiao Yu: Shanghai Customs College
Peng Wang: Shanghai Technical Institute of Electronics Information
Yong Li: Shanghai Maritime University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2024, vol. 26, issue 11, No 78, 29075-29097

Abstract: Abstract Villagers play an important role in rural water environment governance. Based on the theory of planned behavior, this study adopts a multiple ordered logistic regression model to analyze the willingness of villagers' participation and its influential factors. The results show that rural villagers' willingness to participate in the rural water environment governance is relatively low, and villagers' willingness is significantly influenced by their environmental awareness, attitudes, governance activities, and individual characteristics. Meanwhile, the significantly positive effects of environmental awareness and attitude on villagers' willingness to participate in rural water environment governance are greater than other indicators. Thus, to improve villagers' participation performance, it is necessary to carry out diverse environmental publicity and education activities to improve villagers' environmental awareness and attitude, change current measures of rural water pollution treatment to mobilize multiple stakeholders to participate in rural environment governance, and develop targeted strategies based on villagers' individual characteristics to activate their participation behavior.

Keywords: Rural water environment; Theory of planned behavior; Villagers' willingness to participate; Environmental governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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