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Multilevel Analysis of Public Environmental Behavior intention——Based on 2013 CSS dataset

WANG Xiaonan,LIU Lin   

  1. (1.College of Sociology and Political Science,Shanghai University,Shanghai 200444,China;2.College of Public Management,Shanghai Open University,Shanghai 200433,China)
  • Online:2017-01-01 Published:2017-01-16

Abstract: The survey of environmental behavior intention has been an indispensable item in international environmental investigation.The adjusted role of the environmental behavior intention to environmental behaviors has been proved by the empirical research of environmental sociology.Regretfully,the study of environmental behavior intention in China is still not sufficient,with the study of behavior intention as an affecting factor of the environment behavior.This study is based on the CSS data of China in 2013,from 110 county-level cities of 9181 residents in our country,from the micro level and macro level as well.The research results show that at the individual level,marital status,place of residence,the party members' identity,self-evaluation of economic status,education,access to information,the environmental risk awareness,political participation have the positive effects on environmental behavior intention.At the macro level,economic development has a significant role in promoting residents' environmental behavior intention,industrial wastewater emissions,industrial solid waste emissions and economic development index interaction effect on residents' environmental behavior will have a certain influences.Water pollution variables under the adjusted effect of economic development have the reverse effects to the behavior intention.

Key words: Chinese residents, environmental behavior intention, multilevel analysis

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