Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article combines influencing factors of farmers’ participation in the Rural Living Environment Renovation Project (RLERP) and conceptualizes a model that depicts the relationships between the demographic characteristics of farmers and their perceptions and behavioral response to RLERP. Using a questionnaire survey to collect empirical data, we found (1) A total of 92% of farmers have fully realized the importance of rural living environment, but most people have adopted a wait-and-see attitude and a lack of motivation to participate. (2) A total of 65% of farmers participate in the collection and classification of domestic waste, 22% of the farmers participate in captivity livestock behavior, and 19% of farmers participate in the response behavior of domestic sewage treatment. (3) A significant positive correlation occurs between income level and farmers’ cognition and behavior response. (4) The education standards of the public are not correlated with the farmers’ cognition but is significantly correlated with farmers’ behavioral response. (5) The cognitive and behavioral response of females to RLERP is significantly higher than that of men. 6) In the process from cognition to the action response, farmers’ cognition is positively correlated with action response. On this basis, some measures and suggestions to improve the response of farmers to rural living environment renovation are put forward.
Highlights
The Dongting Lake Wetland Reserve is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China
The results showed that (1) the group of farmers whose household income is under $2,282.68 apparently lacks a behavioral response to the rural living environment renovation policy and knowledge
The results show that if the farmers in the sample areas have a high degree of awareness on the status of the rural environmental pollution and the rural living environment renovation policies and methods, their behavioral response will be more active and vice versa
Summary
The Dongting Lake Wetland Reserve is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China. The reserve mainly covers 3 cities and 16 counties (urban areas) of Yueyang, Changde, and Yiyang. It has a rural population of 7.1 million and a per capita arable land area of 0.65 hectares. As the main traditional rice production area in China, the reserve enjoys the reputation of being the “land of fish and rice.”. The reserve is an important production and export base of commercial grains in the country, and it is a key area for China’s new rural construction. Affected by the traditional concept of “treatment after pollution,” rural environmental management is relatively lagging, infrastructure construction is insufficient, rural settlements are scattered, and rural household garbage, livestock manure, and domestic sewage have seriously affected farmers’ production, lives, Approved 10.23.20 Returned CR-2020-0847 by the author
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