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Environmental Protection Behavior: Strategies for Formation and Recurrence

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 29838

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Feiyu Chen

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School of Economics and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: waste management; waste separation behavior; environmental policy; behavior recurrence; data mining; policy evaluation
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Dr. Jing Hou

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Guest Editor
School of Business, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: environmental economy and individual behavior

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Dear Colleagues, 

The relation of mankind and nature is the basic relationship of human society, and ecological civilization is the inevitable choice for the harmonious coexistence between humankind and nature. However, great changes have taken place in human work, lifestyle, and consumption structure since the industrial civilization, resulting in increasingly serious ecological and environmental problems. The relationship between human social development and ecological environment protection has become a global issue. In the past decades, scholars have made many contributions to the research regarding environmental protection from the perspectives of product technology, policy legislation, market mechanisms, and human behavior. Especially in human behavior research, the guidance of environmental protection behavior (i.e., resource reduction behavior, resource reuse behavior, energy consumption behavior, green consumption behavior, and anti-resource-waste behavior) of residents, enterprises, government departments and other subjects is considered to be crucial. External situational factors (i.e., policies, publicity, and products) and internal psychological factors (i.e., knowledge, sense of responsibility, and preference) are common driving factors of environmental protection behavior. However, the interactions and mechanisms between these driving factors still need continuous exploration and summary in order to better guide people to actively participate in environmental protection activities. In addition, the contingency of environmental protection behavior is often ignored, which may not be called effective guidance or intervention. Only by promoting individuals’ continuous and stable implementation of environmental protection can it be considered as a successful intervention strategy. Therefore, the study of how to promote the recurrence of environmental protection behavior is an urgent concern. 

This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) aims to explore the strategies for the formation and recurrence of environmental protection behavior. We welcome papers addressing topics including, but not limited to: 

  1. Intervention strategies for environmental protection behavior;
  2. Recurrence mechanism of environmental protection behavior;
  3. Analysis and modeling of environmental protection behavior based on data mining technology;
  4. Research on the psychology and behavior of group environmental protection;
  5. Relationship between environmental protection behavior and current major social problems;
  6. Impacts of environmental protection behavior;
  7. Sustainable utilization of resources and environmental governance from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Prof. Dr. Feiyu Chen
Dr. Jing Hou
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental protection behavior
  • behavior guidance
  • intervention strategy
  • recurrence mechanism
  • environmental governance
  • data mining technology
  • group environmental psychology and behavior
  • social problem
  • sustainable utilization
  • multidisciplinary perspective

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Freshwater Management Discourses in the Northern Peruvian Andes: The Watershed-Scale Complexity for Integrating Mining, Rural, and Urban Stakeholders
by Daniel Mercado-Garcia, Thomas Block, Jheni Thalis Horna Cotrina, Nilton Deza Arroyo, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Guido Wyseure and Peter Goethals
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4682; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064682 - 7 Mar 2023
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The Peruvian environmental action plan seeks headwaters protection as one of its integrated watershed management objectives. However, heterogeneous social and environmental conditions shape this freshwater management challenge at subnational scales. We have noticed different interpretations of this challenge. To map the debate, understand [...] Read more.
The Peruvian environmental action plan seeks headwaters protection as one of its integrated watershed management objectives. However, heterogeneous social and environmental conditions shape this freshwater management challenge at subnational scales. We have noticed different interpretations of this challenge. To map the debate, understand the diverse interpretations, and frame political choices, we conducted semi-structured interviews with institutional and non-institutional stakeholders for performing discourse analysis in an Andean watershed where mountaintop gold mining, midstream farmers, and the downstream Cajamarca city coexist. One discourse dominates the debate on protecting the freshwater supply and argues the importance of river impoundment, municipal storage capacity, and institutional leadership. The other two discourses revolve around protecting the mountain aquifer. The second discourse does so with a fatalistic view of headwaters protection and rural support. The third discourse partially shifts the debate towards the need for improving rural capacity building and (ground)water inventories. To understand evolutions in society, it is crucial to understand these three discourses, including the types of knowledge that actors present as legitimate, the attributed roles to all stakeholders, and the kinds of worldviews informing each discourse. The interaction among discourses could hinder integrated watershed management at worst or, at best, help inspire multi-stakeholder collaboration. Full article
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Study on the Evolution of the Game of Willingness to Cooperate between Residents and Separation Enterprises in Waste Separation Considering the Convenience of Separation Facilities
by Lichi Zhang, Yanyan Jiang and Junmin Wu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1149; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021149 - 9 Jan 2023
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The distributivity and complexity of separation facilities in waste separation cooperation are incorporated into the factors influencing the payoff of waste separation cooperation. The game payment matrix of waste separation cooperation is constructed based on the distributivity and complexity of separation facilities. The [...] Read more.
The distributivity and complexity of separation facilities in waste separation cooperation are incorporated into the factors influencing the payoff of waste separation cooperation. The game payment matrix of waste separation cooperation is constructed based on the distributivity and complexity of separation facilities. The equilibrium solution of waste separation cooperation is obtained through the evolutionary game. The influence of different changes in distributivity and complexity of separation facilities on the willingness to cooperate in waste separation is explored through numerical analysis of cases. The study shows that when the distributivity of separation facilities is certain, the lower the complexity of separation facilities, the higher the willingness of residents and enterprises to cooperate; when the complexity of separation facilities is certain, the willingness of residents and enterprises to cooperate rises and then falls with the increase of distributivity of separation facilities; finally, when the distributivity and complexity of separation facilities change at the same time, the willingness of residents and enterprises to cooperate shows different changes with the different changes of two separation facilities convenience factors. Full article
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Mechanism and Influencing Factors of Low-Carbon Coal Power Transition under China’s Carbon Trading Scheme: An Evolutionary Game Analysis
by Feng Liu, Yihang Wei, Yu Du and Tao Lv
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 463; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010463 - 27 Dec 2022
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To avoid the energy supply risk caused by the large-scale integration of renewable power with the grid, coal power plants with carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) have the potential to play an important role in the transition to a low-carbon electricity system. [...] Read more.
To avoid the energy supply risk caused by the large-scale integration of renewable power with the grid, coal power plants with carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) have the potential to play an important role in the transition to a low-carbon electricity system. Based on evolutionary game theory, this study analyzed the equilibrium states, evolutionary trajectory and the corresponding critical conditions between the government and the coal power enterprises in this process. Subsequently, a numerical analysis was conducted. The results showed that the carbon trading scheme can directly promote the upgrade of coal power and this effect can be enhanced by establishing the market-oriented trading mechanism of electricity. The slack quota policy at the current stage can contribute to the emergence of the forerunners adopting the CCUS. The technical level of the CCUS had the most significant influence on the equilibrium of the game system. As technology advances, the game system can rapidly achieve the ideal stable strategy (of non-intervention, low-carbon upgrade). On this basis, the government should promote the synergetic development of the carbon market and power market. Additionally, more financial subsidies should be shifted to R&D (research and development) investment. Full article
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How Does Government Information Service Quality Influence Public Environmental Awareness?
by Zhiwei Wang, Qiang Liu and Bo Hou
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 177; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010177 - 22 Dec 2022
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The development of public environmental awareness has been an essential part of environmental governance in China and a prerequisite for the emergence of conscious environmental behaviors. However, the deeper factors influencing Chinese public environmental awareness are not yet fully understood. In this study, [...] Read more.
The development of public environmental awareness has been an essential part of environmental governance in China and a prerequisite for the emergence of conscious environmental behaviors. However, the deeper factors influencing Chinese public environmental awareness are not yet fully understood. In this study, the perception of environmental pollution and the sense of political efficacy were introduced as variables to establish a public environmental awareness model, at the perception level, from the perspective of government information service quality. The correlations between different variables, as well as the working principles, were analyzed based on national environmental survey data. The results demonstrate that both external (the government information service quality) and psychological (the perception of environmental pollution and the sense of political efficacy) factors have significant positive influences on public environmental awareness, with the sense of political efficacy outperforming the perception of environmental pollution and the government information service quality. Analysis of the mediating effect reveals that government information service quality directly influences public environmental awareness; it also indirectly influences public environmental awareness through a chained mediating effect of the perception of environmental pollution and the sense of political efficacy. The results of the multiple-group analysis, with gender and urban–rural attributes as moderator variables, further show that, compared with men and urban residents, the impact of government information service quality and environmental pollution perception on women and rural people’s political efficacy is not significant. Therefore, it is suggested to optimize the government information service, improve the public’s perception of environmental pollution, and then promote the public’s sense of efficacy in the environment governance situation. Furthermore, the government should formulate differentiated strategies for different types of public to guide them to form a proactive awareness of environmental protection. Full article
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The Interaction Mechanism of Fiscal Pressure, Local Government Behavioral Preferences and Environmental Governance Efficiency: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region of China
by Tinghui Wang, Qi Fu, Yue Wang, Mengfan Gao and Jinhua Chen
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16618; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416618 - 10 Dec 2022
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In environmental governance, local governments are the main actors, and their behavioral preferences between economic growth competition (EGC) and environmental regulation (ER) affect the inputs and outputs of environmental governance. Most studies discuss the relationship between government behaviors and the environment from the [...] Read more.
In environmental governance, local governments are the main actors, and their behavioral preferences between economic growth competition (EGC) and environmental regulation (ER) affect the inputs and outputs of environmental governance. Most studies discuss the relationship between government behaviors and the environment from the fiscal decentralization perspective, with few studies from the fiscal pressure (FP) perspective. Importantly, the bidirectional interaction mechanism is easily ignored. This study measured local government FP, EGC, ER, and environmental governance efficiency (EGE) in China’s Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region from 2000 to 2020. Moran’s I index was used to identify the change characteristics of local government behavioral preferences. The interaction mechanism was analyzed by a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model. The results show that (1) from 2000 to 2020, FP was generally strengthened. EGE generally showed fluctuating and rising change characteristics, with more obvious fluctuating and rising characteristics before 2012 and after 2012, respectively. Local governments shifted from a strong alternative preference to a weak synergistic preference. (2) FP had a self-reinforcing effect. EGC and ER had a self-weakening effect. EGE had not only a self-weakening effect but also a weak self-dependence. (3) There is a double negative interaction mechanism between FP and local government behavioral preferences. FP made local governments prefer to reduce EGC and relax ER, but in fact, EGC and ER were conducive to alleviating FP. (4) There is a negative transitive influence mechanism between FP, local government behavioral preferences and EGE. The negative effect of FP on EGE can be transmitted by reducing EGC and ER. This paper provides a scientific basis for improving EGE in the YRD region and understanding the behavioral logic of local governments’ environmental governance and a reference for other rapidly industrializing and urbanizing regions. Full article
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Impact of Urban Residents’ Environmental Cognition on Voluntary Carbon-Reduction Behavior: The Mediating Role of Environmental Emotion
by Ting Yue, Qianru Wang, Ruyin Long, Hong Chen, Mengting Li and Haiwen Liu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 15710; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315710 - 25 Nov 2022
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Urban residents play an essential role in the carbon-reduction process, and it is significant to effectively guide them to reduce carbon voluntarily to achieve the “double carbon” target. In this study, a model was developed to investigate the influence of the environmental cognition [...] Read more.
Urban residents play an essential role in the carbon-reduction process, and it is significant to effectively guide them to reduce carbon voluntarily to achieve the “double carbon” target. In this study, a model was developed to investigate the influence of the environmental cognition (EC), environmental emotion (EE), and voluntary carbon-reduction behavior (VCB) of urban residents. Based on a sample of 978 urban residents in Jiangsu province, we used a multiple regression analysis to investigate the mechanisms of EC and EE on VCB. The results showed that: (1) both EC and EE positively affected residents’ VCB, and EC had a higher impact than EE; (2) the three dimensions of EC (cognition for carbon-reduction knowledge, cognition for environmental issues, and cognition for individual responsibility) and the two dimensions of EE (positive environmental emotion and negative environmental emotion) all had a significant positive effect on voluntary carbon-reduction behavior; and (3) EE played a partial mediating role in the relationship between EC and VCB, and there was no significant difference in the strength of the mediating effect between positive and negative environmental emotion. In conclusion, raising environmental awareness and stimulating environmental emotion have the potential to promote voluntary carbon-reduction behavior among residents. Full article
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Evolutionary Game Analysis of Government and Residents’ Participation in Waste Separation Based on Cumulative Prospect Theory
by Lichi Zhang, Yanyan Jiang and Junmin Wu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(21), 14589; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114589 - 7 Nov 2022
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Government and residents’ participation in waste separation is a complex non-cooperative game process, and the evolutionary game can explain the behavior of participating subjects well. Considering that the traditional evolutionary game cannot satisfactorily explain the irrational psychology and risk preference factors of the [...] Read more.
Government and residents’ participation in waste separation is a complex non-cooperative game process, and the evolutionary game can explain the behavior of participating subjects well. Considering that the traditional evolutionary game cannot satisfactorily explain the irrational psychology and risk preference factors of the participating issues, this study combines the prospect theory and evolutionary game, uses the prospect value function to supplement and improve the parameters of the evolutionary game payment matrix, and analyzes the evolutionary stabilization strategy. To verify the theoretical results, simulation experiments and impact analysis were conducted, and meaningful results were obtained: There are two stable evolutionary strategies in the system, namely higher participation benefits for residents and lower participation costs and opportunity costs, and reasonable direct benefit distribution coefficients all help to increase the participation rate of waste separation. This study can provide some scientific suggestions for the government to design and build a waste-separation system. Full article
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Role of Enterprise Alliance in Carbon Emission Reduction Mechanism: An Evolutionary Game Analysis
by Jichao Geng, Meiyu Ji and Li Yang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11368; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811368 - 9 Sep 2022
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This study constructs the enterprise alliance game party, designs the mechanism for which the alliance and the government are jointly responsible for enterprise carbon emission reduction work, and explores the evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs) of the government, enterprises, and enterprise alliance under the [...] Read more.
This study constructs the enterprise alliance game party, designs the mechanism for which the alliance and the government are jointly responsible for enterprise carbon emission reduction work, and explores the evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs) of the government, enterprises, and enterprise alliance under the policy of carbon tax and carbon trading with numerical simulations. The results show that: (1) the ESSs of the enterprise alliance are always to give technical support to enterprises; (2) the carbon trading price below the critical value can mobilize the enthusiasm of enterprises for honest emission reduction; (3) the carbon tax rate has a negative correlation with enterprise emission reduction behavior; (4) when the underreported carbon emissions of enterprises exceed the critical value, the enterprise will evolve into dishonest emission reduction. The high carbon emissions underreported by enterprises will mobilize the enthusiasm of the government to choose supervision. This study may be of certain reference significance to optimize the existing carbon emission reduction mechanism and achieve win-win cooperation between enterprises and government in the carbon trading market. Full article
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The Expanded Theory of Planned Behavior in the Context of Environmental Protection Behaviors for Undergraduates: Roles of Moral Norms and University Class Standings
by Angela Yi Jing Tsai and Alex Yong Kwang Tan
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(15), 9256; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159256 - 28 Jul 2022
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The expanded Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB) was applied to examine undergraduates’ environmental protection behaviors. Moral norms were applied into the model as the predictor of attitude, social norms and perceived behavioral control. The effects of different class standings were also examined. A [...] Read more.
The expanded Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB) was applied to examine undergraduates’ environmental protection behaviors. Moral norms were applied into the model as the predictor of attitude, social norms and perceived behavioral control. The effects of different class standings were also examined. A questionnaire survey was conducted and 380 responses underwent data analysis using structural equation modelling. According to Model ETPB, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms were strongly affected by moral norms, while attitude was moderately affected by moral norms. Environmental protection behaviors was moderately affected by environmental protection intention, while environmental protection intention was moderately affected by perceived behavioral control which was the strongest predictor, followed by attitude and subjective norms. Invoking moral emotions through posters or peers leading by examples, which over time might internalize into moral norms, played an important role in positively affecting perceived behavioral control and subjective norms. This could be followed by simple and convenient programs creating a positive self-perception of the abilities to carry out environmental protection behaviors. When separated by class standings, perceived behavioral control was the strongest predictor for the freshmen class, while subjective norms were non-significant. For the class standing of sophomores and above, attitude was the strongest predictor. Full article
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Social Network, Sense of Responsibility, and Resident Participation in China’s Rural Environmental Governance
by Haibo Ruan, Jun Chen, Chao Wang, Wendong Xu and Jiayi Tang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(11), 6371; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116371 - 24 May 2022
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Based on a survey of 2343 rural residents in China, this paper adopts a binary logistic regression model as the analytical tool to study the impact of rural residents’ social network and sense of responsibility regarding their participation in environmental governance. The results [...] Read more.
Based on a survey of 2343 rural residents in China, this paper adopts a binary logistic regression model as the analytical tool to study the impact of rural residents’ social network and sense of responsibility regarding their participation in environmental governance. The results show that the cost, frequency and scope of social network activities have positive and significant influences on resident participation in rural environmental governance. The cost of a social network is conducive to building a rural social network, enhancing the connection of interests and promoting the formation of a rural community. Extending social network objectives from family members to villagers can improve the cultural identity and emotional identity of rural residents. The increase in the frequency of social network activities can not only enhance trust among residents, but also reduce the cost of environmental governance mobilization. The scope of a social network acts as an inhibitor whereby social interaction beyond the scope of rural areas will reduce identification with rural emotions. The four dimensions, including responsibility cognition, responsibility will, responsibility emotion and responsibility behavior have significant influences on resident participation in rural environmental governance. Residents’ sense of responsibility plays the role of an introverted driving force for them to take part in rural environmental governance, which itself helps to overcome “non-participation” behaviors of “rational smallholders” to a certain extent. Furthermore, it endows rural environmental governance with resilience. So, it is of significance to enhance rural residents’ social networks and to improve rural residents’ cognition of collective responsibility. Full article
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Determinants of Satisfaction with Solid Waste Management Services: A Central–Local Comparison in China
by Aiqin Wang, Xuyang Chen, Xu Wang, Jia Wei and Liying Song
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(8), 4610; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084610 - 11 Apr 2022
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The Chinese central government proclaimed a mandatory or demonstration waste separation policy in some cities or counties to manage the increasing amounts of generated waste since 2017. Many cities and regions have also begun to build waste separation management systems and institutions, and [...] Read more.
The Chinese central government proclaimed a mandatory or demonstration waste separation policy in some cities or counties to manage the increasing amounts of generated waste since 2017. Many cities and regions have also begun to build waste separation management systems and institutions, and community managers have created waste management rules and provided separation management services under the guidance of local government. However, little is known about how these policies or services have performed and the degree of residents’ satisfaction, especially regarding the central government. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the consequence of these policies using residents’ community and national satisfaction levels with solid waste management services (SWMS) and their determinants. An online survey in 2021 showed that the overall satisfaction levels of communities and national SWMS are similar, but the differences between rural and urban regions are significant. Residents’ satisfaction with community SWMS in urban regions was higher than national satisfaction, and the results in rural regions was contrary. The determinants of community and national satisfaction were also different and varied by region. To improve satisfaction, the government need to standardize basic management systems in different types of regions, gradually improve management services and institutions in rural areas and non-pilot cities and provide special services or facilities for less healthy residents. Full article
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How Symbols and Social Interaction Influence the Experienced Utility of Sustainable Lifestyle Guiding Policies: Evidence from Eastern China
by Xiu Cheng, Ruyin Long and Fan Wu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(7), 4305; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074305 - 3 Apr 2022
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As the key to mitigating climate change, a sustainable lifestyle has become a focus of environment policy. Past studies have largely neglected the symbols of sustainable lifestyle guiding policies and failed to capture its effect on the experienced utility of sustainable lifestyle guiding [...] Read more.
As the key to mitigating climate change, a sustainable lifestyle has become a focus of environment policy. Past studies have largely neglected the symbols of sustainable lifestyle guiding policies and failed to capture its effect on the experienced utility of sustainable lifestyle guiding policies (EUSLGP). To address this drawback, symbolic value was incorporated into a model consisting of social interaction and the EUSLGP. With data collected from 3257 respondents in Eastern China, ordinary least squares were applied to examine hypotheses and two-stage least squares based on the instrumental variable to verify the results. Results show that symbolic value combines self-expression value, relationship consolidation value, group identification value, and status-showing value, and is positively associated with EUSLGP. Social interaction plays a moderating role in the association between symbolic value and EUSLGP. Moreover, significant regional differences are discovered in the identified relationships. Consequently, policy suggestions, covering symbolic value, social interaction, and regional conditions, are proposed to enhance the EUSLGP for other countries and regions. Full article
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Social Network, Cognition and Participation in Rural Health Governance
by Jiayi Tang, Haibo Ruan, Chao Wang, Wendong Xu, Changgui Li and Xuan Dong
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(5), 2862; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052862 - 1 Mar 2022
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Rural health governance is an important part of low-carbon green life, which is also related to the sustainable development and population health project in rural areas. Based on the survey data of 2343 rural residents in China, this study adopted a binary logistic [...] Read more.
Rural health governance is an important part of low-carbon green life, which is also related to the sustainable development and population health project in rural areas. Based on the survey data of 2343 rural residents in China, this study adopted a binary logistic regression model to explore the effects of rural residents’ social network and cognition on their participation in rural health governance. The research results show that only less than 30% of the respondents participated in rural health governance, and the proportion of rural resident participating is not high. Both their social network and cognition have a significant impact on their participation in rural health governance. Introverted communication helps strengthen the connection between rural residents, form the network and structure of rural social communication, build emotional links and common interests, and form a common cultural understanding paradigm and action framework. The extraverted communication means that rural residents gradually break away from the social network of acquaintances, which is not conducive to building a rural community. Rural residents’ understanding of behavior begins to deviate from rural culture, customs and emotional values, and the binding force of traditional culture is reduced, making it difficult to motivate them to participate in rural public life. Policy cognition can improve rural residents’ recognition of the value and significance of health governance. Responsibility awareness is the internal driving force for rural residents to participate in health governance, which can also reduce the governance cost of rural managers. Based on this, increasing rural residents’ introverted communication and cultivating their sense of responsibility are key to promoting their participation in rural health governance. Full article
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Research on the Pathway of Green Financial System to Implement the Realization of China’s Carbon Neutrality Target
by Gaoweijia Wang, Shanshan Li and Li Yang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(4), 2451; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042451 - 21 Feb 2022
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To answer to global climate change, promote climate governance and map out a grand blueprint for sustainable development, carbon neutrality has become the target and vision of all countries. Green finance is a means to coordinate economic development and environmental governance. This paper [...] Read more.
To answer to global climate change, promote climate governance and map out a grand blueprint for sustainable development, carbon neutrality has become the target and vision of all countries. Green finance is a means to coordinate economic development and environmental governance. This paper mainly studies the trend of carbon emission reduction in China in the next 40 years under the influence of green finance development and how to develop and improve China’s green finance system to help China achieve the goal of “carbon neutrality by 2060”. The research process and conclusions are as follows: (1) Through correlation test and data analysis, it is concluded that the development of green finance is an important driving force to achieve carbon neutrality. (2) The grey prediction GM (1,1) model is used to forecast the data of carbon dioxide emissions, green credit balance, green bond issuance scale and green project investment in China from 2020 to 2060. The results show that they will all increase year by year in the next 40 years. (3) BP neural network model is used to further predict carbon dioxide emissions from 2020 to 2060. It is expected that China’s CO2 emissions will show an “inverted V” trend in the next 40 years, and China is expected to achieve a carbon peak in 2032 and be carbon neutral in 2063. Based on the results of the research above, this paper provides a supported path of implementing the realization of the carbon-neutral target of China from the perspective of developing and improving green financial system, aiming to provide references for China to realize the vision of carbon neutrality, providing policy suggestions for relevant departments, and provide ideas for other countries to accelerate the realization of carbon neutrality. Full article
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The Impact of Social Conformity on Adopting Decision of Shared Electric Vehicles: A Choice Experiment Analysis in China
by Wenbo Li, Mengzhe Wang, Miao Yu and Xiao Zheng
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(4), 1955; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19041955 - 10 Feb 2022
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Social conformity, a psychological phenomenon commonly shared by most individuals, has long been ignored by studies focusing on influencing preferences for shared electric vehicles (SEVs). To fill this gap, this paper divides social conformity into informational conformity and normative conformity, and analyzes their [...] Read more.
Social conformity, a psychological phenomenon commonly shared by most individuals, has long been ignored by studies focusing on influencing preferences for shared electric vehicles (SEVs). To fill this gap, this paper divides social conformity into informational conformity and normative conformity, and analyzes their effects on individuals’ choice of SEVs. Respondents were selected randomly in Jiangsu Province, and the data were collected by the choice experiment method. The data were further analyzed by logit models. Results show that social conformity has a significant positive impact on individuals’ choice of SEVs, and informational conformity has a much more profound impact than normative conformity. The driving cost and the convenience of picking up and returning a vehicle also influence consumers’ preferences. In addition, social conformity cannot totally dispel the negative impact of poor experience. Finally, some targeted policy recommendations are proposed. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Protection Behavior: Strategies for Formation and Recurrence)
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