HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2020, Vol. 59 ›› Issue (18): 185-190.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2020.18.037

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Comparative study on environmental protection behavior of urban and rural residents in China:Analysis based on CGSS 2013 data

CHENG Meng-guang   

  1. School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
  • Received:2019-11-05 Published:2020-11-05

Abstract: Based on CGSS 2013 data, the differences and influencing factors of environmental protection behavior of urban and rural residents in China were comparatively analyzed. The results showed that,the practice level of environmental protection behavior of urban and rural residents was low, the personal and public environmental protection behavior of urban residents was higher than that of rural residents; the positive effect of environmental problem cognition on personal environmental protection behavior of urban residents was greater than that of rural residents, and the positive effect on public environmental protection behavior of rural residents was greater than that of urban residents; environmental knowledge was helpful for urban and rural residents to take personal environmental protection behavior,but had negative effect on public environmental protection behavior of urban residents; environmental protection job satisfaction was conducive to the implementation of environmental protection behavior of urban and rural residents, but had different effects on personal environmental protection behavior and public environmental protection behavior of urban and rural residents.

Key words: environmental protection behavior, urban-rural comparison, environmental problem cognition, environmental knowledge, environmental protection job satisfaction

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