Place attachment, community trust, and farmer's community participation: Evidence from the hardest-hit areas of Sichuan, China

Abstract

Traditional community disaster prevention and mitigation relies on the top-down management mode led by the government and ignores the important role played by the participation of peasant households and communities in grass-roots disaster risk management. Based on the sampling survey data of 327 households in the disaster threatened area, An ordered multi-classification logistic regression model was constructed to explore the relationship between farmers' place attachment, community trust and community participation (CP), and further test the mediating effect of community trust on the relationship between place attachment and CP. The results showed that:(1) the self-score of farmers' CP behavior was in the middle level. place attachment was relatively high, with the mean scores of place identity and place dependence being 4.15 and 4.17 respectively. Farmers' community trust is at a high level, among which organizational trust score is the highest with an average of 4.37, and emotional trust score is the lowest with an average of 3.97. (2) Both farmers' local attachment and community trust are positively correlated with their social participation, and community trust has a partial mediating effect between Place attachment and community participation. This study analyzes the correlation between local attachment, community trust and community participation in disaster threatened areas, which can provide support for the construction of community resilience disaster prevention system and improve the comprehensive ability of communities to resist and reduce disaster loss.