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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.01.008
	Public environmental concern in China: Determinants and variations
	Liu X.; Mu R.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	37
英文摘要	How much are Chinese people and various citizen groups concerned about the environment relative to other major public problems? What are the key factors and to what extent do these factors shape individual Chinese environmental concern? Based on a micro-macro model and a county fixed model proposed in this study, we employ nationwide representative public opinion survey data and provincial statistics to examine the determinants and variations of public environmental concern in China. The data shows that environmental concern is not among the top-ranked issue concerns in China overall, but in the urban areas and in the east-coastal region environmental protection features as a rather important issue. Our regression analyses further demonstrate that the Chinese environmental concern is significantly affected by both micro-level socio-demographic variables and macro-level regional economic conditions and environmental risks. In the east-coastal region, such individuals as urbanites with high income are most environmentally concerned. There is a lack of concern over environmental issues among the public in the west region, where little association between individual sociodemographics and their environmental concern is detected. In the central-northeast region, education effect is evident in the rural area. Location contextual factors such as economic development and environmental risk account for most of the observed variations in public environment concern. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	China; Economic development; Environmental concern; Environmental risk
学科领域	demographic survey; economic development; environmental conditions; environmental protection; environmental risk; global change; income; public attitude; regression analysis; China
语种	英语
scopus关键词	demographic survey; economic development; environmental conditions; environmental protection; environmental risk; global change; income; public attitude; regression analysis; China
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117398
作者单位	Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A andM University, United States; Department of International Affairs, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A and M University, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu X.,Mu R.. Public environmental concern in China: Determinants and variations[J],2016,37.
APA	Liu X.,&Mu R..(2016).Public environmental concern in China: Determinants and variations.Global Environmental Change,37.
MLA	Liu X.,et al."Public environmental concern in China: Determinants and variations".Global Environmental Change 37(2016).