{"id":17200,"date":"2018-10-30T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/?p=17200"},"modified":"2019-12-06T17:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T08:24:51","slug":"article-the-effects-of-regional-characteristics-and-policies-on-individual-pro-environmental-behavior-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/?p=17200","title":{"rendered":"[Article] The Effects of Regional Characteristics and Policies on Individual Pro-Environmental Behavior in China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Effects of Regional Characteristics and Policies on Individual Pro-Environmental Behavior in China<\/h3>\n
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by\u00a0Zhe Hong<\/a>\u00a0\u2020<\/sup>\u00a0and<\/span>In Kwon Park<\/a>\u00a0*,\u2020<\/sup><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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Department of Urban Administration, University of Seoul, 163 Seoulsiripdaero, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02504, Korea<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2020<\/sup>The authors contributed equally to the study.<\/div>\n
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Sustainability<\/em>\u00a02018<\/b>,\u00a010<\/em>(10), 3586;\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/su10103586<\/a><\/div>\n
Received: 2 August 2018 \/ Revised: 15 September 2018 \/ Accepted: 1 October 2018 \/ Published: 9 October 2018<\/div>\n
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As the Chinese economy grows, Chinese people\u2019s environmental behavior enormously affects the environment of neighboring countries as well as China. Many studies have related environmental behavior to personal characteristics such as environmental knowledge and attitude or to\u00a0national<\/span>\u00a0policies such as environmental taxes and regulations. Few studies have looked at how\u00a0regional<\/span>\u00a0factors affect residents\u2019 environmental behaviors, particularly for China. This is a substantive gap in the literature regarding the effects of regional governments on resident behavior at a closer distance via different mechanisms than the national government. This paper examines determinants of individual pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in terms of\u00a0regional<\/span>\u00a0attributes as well as personal characteristics in China. For this purpose, we applied a multi-level regression model that regresses the degree of PEB on both individual and regional level factors, using Chinese General Social Survey data and the China Environment Yearbook data for the year 2010. The analysis shows that environmental attitude, willingness to pay for the environment, objective and subjective environmental knowledge, and environmental risk perception all promote PEB at the individual level. These results are in line with the existing literature on environmental behavior. In addition, at the regional level, environmental budgets, administrative enforcement, and economic development have positive impacts on resident PEB, while environmental pollution has a negative effect. Specifically, the levels of regional economic development and administrative enforcement not only directly affect behavior, but also indirectly affect behavior by controlling the influence of individual level variables. This means that the relationships between individual level variables and environmental behavior can be changed by regional contextual factors. These results suggest that regional government efforts for the environment can effectively promote PEB.<\/div>\n
Keywords:\u00a0<\/em>pro-environmental behavior<\/a>;\u00a0regional factors<\/a>;\u00a0cross-level interactions<\/a>;\u00a0multi-level analysis<\/a>;\u00a0China<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Effects of Regional Characteristics and Policies on Individual Pro-Environmental Behavior in China by\u00a0Zhe Hong\u00a0\u2020\u00a0andIn Kwon Park\u00a0*,\u2020 Department of Urban Administration, University of Seoul, 163 Seoulsiripdaero, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02504, Korea *Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. \u2020The authors contributed equally to the study. Sustainability\u00a02018,\u00a010(10),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17201,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions\/17201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/cities\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}