School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 May 26;17(11):3753. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17113753.
Environmental pollution as a result of the improper disposal of pesticide packaging wastes (PPWs) has posed serious harm to groundwater, soil and public health. However, few studies focused on PPWs green disposal willingness and behaviors of farmers from the perspective of perceived value. Based on the first-hand data, collected from 635 farmers of grain-producing counties in Henan province of China, through the questionnaire survey method, this paper adopted a structural equation model (SEM) to empirically explore the formation mechanism of perceived value on PPWs green disposal, and green disposal willingness and behaviors were further in-depth investigated. The results showed that the action of farmers' green disposal of PPWs followed the causal relationship, whereby perceived value→behavioral willingness→behavioral performance, and farmers' perceived value came from the comprehensive tradeoff and comparison between perceived benefits and perceived risks. Meanwhile, the perceived benefits and perceived risks could have significant effects on green disposal willingness and behaviors directly and indirectly, among which perceived benefits (0.478) had the greatest positive total effects on the willingness, and perceived risks (-0.362) had the greatest negative total effects on the behaviors. Interestingly, there existed inconsistence between farmers' green disposal willingness and behaviors. When faced with the choice of PPWs green disposal, the farmers were generally risk averse, which resulted in them being more inclined to take conservative behaviors driven by the profit maximization, and even showed the "powerless" state with willingness but no actual action.
由于农药包装废弃物（PPWs）处理不当而造成的环境污染，对地下水、土壤和公众健康造成了严重危害。然而，很少有研究从感知价值的角度关注农民对 PPWs 绿色处理的意愿和行为。本研究基于河南省粮食主产县的 635 名农民的一手数据，通过问卷调查法，采用结构方程模型（SEM）实证探讨了感知价值对 PPWs 绿色处理的形成机制，并进一步深入研究了绿色处理意愿和行为。结果表明，农民对 PPWs 的绿色处理行为遵循着感知价值→行为意愿→行为表现的因果关系，而农民的感知价值来自于感知收益和感知风险之间的综合权衡和比较。同时，感知收益和感知风险可以直接和间接地对绿色处理意愿和行为产生显著影响，其中感知收益（0.478）对意愿的正向总效应最大，感知风险（-0.362）对行为的负向总效应最大。有趣的是，农民的绿色处理意愿和行为之间存在不一致性。当面临 PPWs 绿色处理的选择时，农民普遍存在风险规避，这导致他们更倾向于采取以利润最大化为驱动的保守行为，甚至表现出有意愿但无实际行动的“无力”状态。
