School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
Department of Economics, Law and Society, ESSCA School of Management, EU-Asia Institute, 49003 Angers, France.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 22;18(19):9947. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18199947.
Environmental pollution threatens public health and has become a social concern in recent years. Despite the conditions for public participation in environmental governance have improved considerably, the level of public engagement in government projects still falls short of expectations. Therefore, this article introduced two key variables, hoping to answer the following research question that how environmental concerns and governance performance affect public environmental participation. Through principal component analysis of the data from the "Survey of Chinese Urban Residents' Attitudes toward Environmental Protection", the findings of this article are as follows: First, public environmental concerns have no significant impact on their environmental engagement; second, the improvement of residents' confidence in the government performance of environmental management reduces their willingness to participate in official projects. The higher the confidence in the government's performance, the lower the level of public engagement is. Moreover, due to the consideration of self-interest or lack of environmental awareness, those who oppose waste incineration in waste terminal disposal tend to take a non-participatory role in waste sorting programs. Therefore, we suggest that the government have more diverse shareholders in environmental protection, so it should expand public participation through education, publicity, mobilization, and incentives.
环境污染威胁公众健康，近年来已成为社会关注的焦点。尽管公众参与环境治理的条件有了很大改善，但公众对政府项目的参与程度仍不尽如人意。因此，本文引入了两个关键变量，希望回答以下研究问题：环境问题和治理绩效如何影响公众的环境参与。通过对“中国城市居民环保态度调查”数据进行主成分分析，本文得出如下结论：第一，公众的环境问题关注对其环境参与没有显著影响；第二，居民对政府环境管理绩效的信心提高会降低他们参与官方项目的意愿。对政府绩效的信心越高，公众参与度越低。此外，由于考虑到自身利益或缺乏环境意识，那些反对在垃圾终端处理中焚烧垃圾的人往往在垃圾分类项目中采取不参与的态度。因此，我们建议政府在环境保护方面拥有更多元的股东，通过教育、宣传、动员和激励来扩大公众参与。
