Zou Zhanlu, Jin Jianjun, Qiu Xin, Yang Jie, Liu Dan, Zhang Chenyang
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China; School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China; School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
J Environ Manage. 2025 Feb;374:124007. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.124007. Epub 2025 Jan 8.
An improved comprehension of the factors that influence farmers' diversified energy-saving behaviors makes significant sense for enacting potent energy policies and curbing rural energy consumption. This paper investigated the effect of social networks on diversified energy-saving behaviors adopted by farmers in the Tibetan Plateau region of China, by establishing a generalized Poisson regression model. A total of 480 farmers were randomly interviewed. The results indicate that farmers' social networks were relatively abundant in the study area, and the diversified energy-saving behaviors exhibited good performance at the overall level. Farmers' social networks are of paramount importance in the execution of diversified energy-saving behaviors. In particular, the scale and frequency of social networks are instrumental in the success of the implementation of diversified energy-saving behaviors. Farmers' sociodemographic characteristics, including gender, education level, household size, and residential housing area, also facilitate their adoption of diversified energy-saving behaviors. The findings contribute to the further exploration of the value of social networks in determining environmental actions in rural areas and provide an effective basis for policy formulation to save energy consumption in similar regions in other countries.
深入理解影响农民多样化节能行为的因素，对于制定有力的能源政策和抑制农村能源消耗具有重要意义。本文通过建立广义泊松回归模型，研究了社会网络对中国青藏高原地区农民采用的多样化节能行为的影响。共随机采访了480名农民。结果表明，研究区域内农民的社会网络较为丰富，多样化节能行为在总体水平上表现良好。农民的社会网络在多样化节能行为的实施中至关重要。特别是，社会网络的规模和频率有助于多样化节能行为实施的成功。农民的社会人口特征，包括性别、教育水平、家庭规模和居住房屋面积，也促进了他们采用多样化节能行为。这些发现有助于进一步探索社会网络在决定农村地区环境行动方面的价值，并为其他国家类似地区制定节能消费政策提供有效依据。
