The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Environmental Governance Satisfaction

Yongliang Yang, Liwen Shen, Yuwen Li and Yi Li
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Yongliang Yang: School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Liwen Shen: School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Yuwen Li: School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Yi Li: Fashion Department, DongHai Academy, Collaborative Innovation Center of Port Economy, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-21

Abstract: Recently, environmental information disclosure has increasingly become a popular rural environmental governance policy. Environmental governance satisfaction can reflect the government’s policy effect, and it is also residents’ subjective evaluation of environmental quality. This paper uses field questionnaire data in rural areas and establishes an ordered logit model to study the relationship between environmental information disclosure and residents’ satisfaction. The empirical results show that rural environmental information disclosure has a significant positive impact on residents’ satisfaction with environmental governance. Further research found that the impact process occurred through the mediating variable of residents’ evaluation of the surrounding ecological environment. In addition, residents’ knowledge of environmental protection has a moderating effect on the relationship between environmental information disclosure and satisfaction. Therefore, in rural environmental governance, local governments can increase environmental information disclosure to improve residents’ satisfaction and participation.

Keywords: environmental governance; environmental information disclosure; 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: 2022
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