Farmers’ awareness of environmental protection and rural residential environment improvement: a case study of Sichuan province, China

Chen Qing (), Shili Guo (), Xin Deng () and Dingde Xu ()
Additional contact information
Chen Qing: Sichuan Agricultural University
Shili Guo: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Xin Deng: Sichuan Agricultural University
Dingde Xu: Sichuan Agricultural University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2022, vol. 24, issue 9, No 33, 11319 pages

Abstract: Abstract While most studies focus on the impact characteristics of farmers and family economic traits have on participation in rural environmental improvement, few studies focus on the relationship between farmers’ environmental awareness and rural residential environment improvement. Based on the survey data of 200 farmers in Sichuan Province, this paper divides farmers’ environmental awareness into three dimensions: environmental problem cognition, environmental pollution tolerance, and environmental protection attitude and constructs a binary logistic regression model to explore the relationship between farmers’ environmental awareness and the improvement of rural residential environment. The results show that the rural residential environment in Sichuan Province still faces some challenges, and farmers’ environmental awareness significantly influences their improvement behaviors. Higher levels of environmental problem cognition can promote farmers’ participation in environmental improvement, but sensitive environmental pollution tolerance does not promote environmental improvement behavior. Positive environmental attitudes have both positive and negative effects on improving behavior. In addition, individual characteristics of farmers, household economic aspects, and nonpoint source pollution status of their residence also affect their participation in rural environmental improvement to varying degrees. This study can help us better understand the explanatory role of farmers’ subjective consciousness in their environmental behavior decision-making and thus provide support for the formulation and implementation of policies of human settlements improvement.

Keywords: Improvement of rural residential environment; Toilet revolution; Domestic sewage discharge; Waste treatment; Environmental awareness; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-021-01909-9 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:endesu:v:24:y:2022:i:9:d:10.1007_s10668-021-01909-9

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10668

DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01909-9

Access Statistics for this article

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development is currently edited by Luc Hens

More articles in Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().