Environmental Regulation, Environmental Awareness and Environmental Governance Satisfaction

Meng-Meng Geng and Ling-Yun He
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Meng-Meng Geng: College of Economics, & Institute of Resource, Environment and Sustainable Development Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: It is a problem worth thinking about whether the government’s environmental regulation policies can meet the residents’ requirements for environmental quality, and benefit the people. The study of the public’s subjective evaluation can more intuitively judge whether the government’s environmental regulation has realized “ecological benefits for the people”. Based on the data of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2013, this paper studied the impact of environmental regulation and environmental awareness on environmental governance satisfaction by an ordered probit model. The study found that environmental regulation has a significant positive impact on environmental governance satisfaction, while environmental awareness has a significant negative impact on environmental governance satisfaction. We also found that when public environmental awareness is taken into account, the positive relationship between environmental regulation and environmental governance satisfaction is affected. The robustness test proved this conclusion.

Keywords: environmental regulation; environmental awareness; environmental governance satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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