Resources Science ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (12): 2354-2369.doi: 10.18402/resci.2020.12.08

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Impact of social norms and public supervision on the willingness and behavior of farming households to participate in rural living environment improvement: Empirical analysis based on generalized continuous ratio model

SUN Qianlu1(), FANG Kexin2, LIU Tianping2()   

  1. 1. College of Economics and Managenment, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou 466001, China
    2. Research Center for Rural Economic Development in Tibet, Tibet Agriculture & Animal Husbandry University, Linzhi 860000, China
  • Received:2019-11-25 Revised:2020-02-27 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2021-02-25
  • Contact: LIU Tianping E-mail:tbsql@qq.com;sxpldm@163.com

Abstract:

The willingness and behavior of farming households to participate in the improvement of rural living environment is the most direct driving force for rural environment improvement and an important basis for rural residents to realize the reform of improving rural livability and ecological civilization and the promulgation of detailed methods. To examine the willingness and behavior of farming household participation in rural residential environment improvement , this study comprehensively analyzed the willingness and behavior of farming households and factors that influence the consistency between behavior and intention based on the perspective of social norms and social supervision, using data from a survey of 707 farming households in Tibet and the generalized continuous ratio model. The results show that: (1) Willingness to participate in the improvement of rural living environment was observed in slightly more than half of the surveyed households (51.77%), but the consistency between willingness and behavior is poor; (2) Participation enthusiasm of neighbors, supervision of cleaning workers, and perception that the improvement of village living environment can reduce the spread of diseases have a significant positive impact on the willingness and behavior of farmers to participate; (3) Education level of farmers, peer supervision, and government publicity are conducive to the transformation of farmers’ willingness to participate into action. The conclusion of this study supports the rural living environment improvement model with the government taking the leading role and farmers participating, which has some policy implication for promoting the improvement of rural living environment and reference value for the government to issue rural management policies.

Key words: rural living environment improvement, farmer participation, social norms, public supervision, generalized continuous ratio model, Tibet Autonomous Region