College of Economics & Management, Northwest A&F University, 3 Taicheng Road, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 Apr;27(11):12308-12319. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-07760-1. Epub 2020 Jan 28.
The land use changes and farmers' unreasonable land use behaviors continue to threaten China's agricultural land, exacerbating the impact of pollution. The factors that persuade farm households to perform pro-environmental actions are preliminary efforts to strengthen environmental protection. The current study aims to better understand how the dual interest preferences of rural households are interrelated and influence their environmental behavior. A structured questionnaire was employed to collect the primary data from 4 provinces in China to develop new methods to measure the dual interest preferences of farmers and to study their impact on pro-environmental behaviors. The structural equation model (SEM) in Stata14 was used to analyze the relationship between latent and observed variables and to understand their impact on farmers' environmental behavior. The results showed that all the observed variables have the expected signs and have a significant relationship with their latent variables. With the coefficients of 0.76, 0.88, and 0.64, the underlying variables related to the households' dual interest preferences are statistically significantly correlated. The coefficient 0.34 of the latent variable ensures a direct and significant impact on farm households' pro-environmental behavior, suggesting that non-uniformity preferences or conflicts exist between the short- and long-term economic interests. Similarly, a positive and significant coefficient of 0.28 suggests the non-uniformity of preferences in short-term economic and social interests. All the fitness indices ensured that our model fits well. To improve the environment and land quality, the current research has policy implications for the adoption of environment-friendly pesticide and organic fertilizers.
土地利用变化和农民不合理的土地利用行为持续威胁着中国的农业用地，加剧了污染的影响。促使农户采取环保行动的因素是加强环境保护的初步努力。本研究旨在更好地理解农村家庭的双重利益偏好是如何相互关联并影响他们的环境行为的。本研究采用结构问卷从中国的 4 个省份收集了主要数据，以开发新的方法来衡量农民的双重利益偏好，并研究其对环保行为的影响。Stata14 中的结构方程模型（SEM）用于分析潜在变量和观测变量之间的关系，并了解它们对农民环境行为的影响。结果表明，所有观测变量都具有预期的符号，并与其潜在变量有显著关系。与家庭双重利益偏好相关的潜在变量的系数分别为 0.76、0.88 和 0.64，在统计上具有显著相关性。潜在变量对农户环保行为的直接和显著影响系数为 0.34，表明短期和长期经济利益之间存在非一致性偏好或冲突。同样，短期经济和社会利益偏好非一致性的正且显著系数为 0.28。所有拟合指标都确保了我们的模型拟合良好。为了改善环境和土地质量，本研究对采用环保型农药和有机肥具有政策意义。
