Residents' Behavioral Intention of Environmental Governance and Its Influencing Factors: Based on a Multidimensional Willingness Measure Perspective

Shijie Li; Yan Xia; Rongbo Xiao; Haiyan Jiang

doi:10.3390/ijerph192214734

Residents' Behavioral Intention of Environmental Governance and Its Influencing Factors: Based on a Multidimensional Willingness Measure Perspective

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 9;19(22):14734. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192214734.

Authors

Shijie Li^{1

2}, Yan Xia^{1

2}, Rongbo Xiao^{3

4}, Haiyan Jiang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510090, China.
² Landscape Planning and Ecological Restoration Research Center, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510090, China.
³ Guangdong Industrial Contaminated Site Remediation Technology and Equipment Engineering Research Center, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
⁴ School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.

Abstract

The rapid development of industrialization has brought about a huge demand for mineral resources, and the mining industry has posed a threat to sustainable land use while promoting economic development. In the context of collaborative governance, residents are an important aspect of land pollution abatement. Therefore, understanding residents' willingness to participate in environmental governance and exploring its influencing factors have important implications for improving the motivation of residents to participate in environmental governance and improve the local habitat. Using the multidimensional willingness measurement data of rural households' perception of mining environment governance around the Dabaoshan mining area in Shaoguan in 2020, based on the extended theory of planned behavior, this study established a multidimensional measurement of willingness, including willingness to participate, willingness to pay, and willingness to mobilize, and used structural equation modeling to explore the factors influencing residents' behavioral intention of environmental governance. The results suggest that behavioral attitudes had a positive effect on willingness to participate and willingness to pay. In addition, subjective norms had no significant effect on willingness to participate but were negatively related to willingness to pay. Although perceived behavioral control had no significant effect on willingness to participate, it had a positive effect on willingness to pay. In addition, the results also show that the willingness to pay and willingness to participate of farmers were positively related to their willingness to mobilize. Based on the above findings, this study proposes some policy implications to improve residents' behavioral intention of land pollution abatement, including strengthening value perception, improving subjective awareness, building communication platforms, and improving personal capacity.

Keywords: environmental governance; land pollution abatement; sustainable land use; theory of planned behavior.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Attitude
Conservation of Natural Resources*
Environmental Policy
Humans
Intention*
Surveys and Questionnaires

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2019B110207001), China’s Ministry of Education project of Humanities and Social Science Research (Grant No. 21YJAZH032), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2020A1515110307), Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (Grant No. 202102020255).