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{"title":"Integrating the valence theory and the norm activation theory to understand consumers’ e-waste recycling intention","authors":"Hong Thi Thu Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2023.03.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjpre.2023.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) is a growing challenge, matching the widespread boom in the use of information and communication technology. Opposite to an alarming increasing amount of e-waste, a low rate of consumer engagement in ensuring the proper disposal of such materials intensifies the pressure on the existing e-waste crisis. To deal with this thorny problem, it is of great interest to grasp consumers’ disposal and recycling behavioral intentions. Therefore, this study attempts to understand complementary perspectives around consumers’ e-waste recycling intention based on the integration of the valence theory and the norm activation theory. Four data mining models using classification and prediction-based algorithms, namely Chi-squared automatic interaction detector (CHAID), Neural network, Discriminant analysis, and Quick, unbiased, efficient statistical tree (QUEST), were employed to analyze a set of the 398 data collected in Vietnam. The results revealed that the social support value is by far the most critical predictor, followed by the utilitarian value, task difficulty, and monetary risk. It is also noteworthy that the awareness of consequences, education background, the ascription of responsibility, and age were also ranked as critical affecting factors. The lowest influential predictors found in this study were income and gender. In addition, a comparison was made in terms of the classification performance of the four utilized data mining techniques. Based on several evaluation measurements (confusion matrix, accuracy, precision, recall, specificity, F-measure, ROC curve, and AUC), the aggregated results suggested that CHAID and Neural network performed the best. The findings of this research are expected to assist policymakers and future researchers in updating all information surrounding consumer behavioral intention-related topics focusing on e-waste. Furthermore, the adoption of data mining algorithms for prediction is another insight of this study, which may shed the light on data mining applications in such environmental studies in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"21 1","pages":"Pages 26-36"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49893270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the unique characteristics of environmental sustainability in China: Navigating future challenges","authors":"Md. Ziaul Islam ,&nbsp;Shuwei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2023.03.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjpre.2023.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the pace of global sustainable development, China has improved significantly in tackling environmental problems such as carbon emissions, climate change, air, water, and soil pollution, and wildlife extinction. Our study shows that despite China’s economic policy reform, several issues persist, including inequality between society and region, depletion and waste of resources, and damage to the natural environment. The study observed that China shuts low-level oil and coal-based power plants to prevent air pollution, promote a zero-carbon world, and reduce carbon intensity to 18.8%. The country also increased forest coverage by nearly 23.4%, declared five national parks in 2021, cleaned 98% of polluted water bodies, and improved the air quality in many big cities. A country like China has shown deep concern for environmental sustainability and has formulated many policies, laws, and regulations to prevent and conserve the environment and biodiversity and ensure sustainable economic development. This study argues that the Chinese concept of ecological civilization construction adheres to global sustainable development as both pursuits of achieving sustainable conservation of natural resources and improving the livelihoods of the people. Therefore, this paper reviews China’s policies toward ecological civilization (EC), which aim to create a beautiful China by 2035 on the outline of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030. The present study also addresses the issues the Chinese government faces while implementing environmental sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"21 1","pages":"Pages 37-42"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49790798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does internet use improve the public evaluation of government environmental governance (GEG) in China? An analysis using the Chinese Social Survey, 2013-2017","authors":"Jinghuan Chen,&nbsp;Jason A. Jean,&nbsp;Yunliang Zhang,&nbsp;Yixi Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on three datasets of the Chinese Social Survey (CSS) 2013, 2015, and 2017 and the National Statistical Yearbook, this study examined whether and in what ways using the Internet may or may not affect the public evaluation of government environmental governance (GEG). There are three main findings. First, Internet use has a negative influence on the public evaluation of GEG. Second, there has been an urban-rural difference in terms of Internet use; especially for the rural resident, increasing their use of the Internet significantly lowered their evaluation of GEG. Third, Internet use affects GEG mainly through political trust, whilst it tends to enhance people’s perception of environmental problems; however, it has little influence on their evaluation of GEG. This finding implies that public evaluation of GEG should be viewed as an important inter-subjective dimension of GEG; especially in the Internet era, it has become increasingly necessary for the government to not only continuously improve the quality of governance by dealing with actual/practical environmental issues, but also enhance its ability to react to the public opinions online effectively and appropriately.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 307-315"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000845/pdfft?md5=a423ab4dac094f00e3ec908db681a9d4&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000845-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73210669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental pollution and migrant settlement decision: Evidence from China","authors":"Jiajia Li ,&nbsp;Yu Peng ,&nbsp;Pengxin Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the development of economy, people’s awareness of environmental protection has been constantly awakened, and their attention to environmental governance has also been increasing. The environmental conditions of residential areas are also becoming more and more important for residents to make settlement decisions. This study is the first to match the data of the air quality index to the data on the health monitoring of the floating population at the urban level. Moreover, it is the first to discuss the influence of environmental pollution on the settlement decision of the floating population. The results reveal that the higher the degree of environmental pollution (the level of infrastructure and public welfare) in a city, the greater the probability that the floating population will leave the city. The effects of environmental pollution are significant after considering other household, personal, and city characteristics of a population. Regarding family income constraints, the impact of environmental pollution on the migration decision of middle-income groups in the floating population is significantly lower than that of low-income groups. Moreover, there is a threshold effect of income. The influence of environmental pollution on the corresponding floating population settlement decision is different under different urban scales and current housing prices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 357-368"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000894/pdfft?md5=33c30374824b12d3bb28a72830cf54eb&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000894-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89807339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An empirical study on the green effects of new energy vehicle promotion in the context of global carbon neutrality","authors":"Xuan Gu ,&nbsp;Meng Wang ,&nbsp;Jiang Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the context of global carbon neutrality, new energy vehicle promotion (NEVP) has become an important means of reducing carbon emissions. This paper constructs a theoretical model and uses panel data on NEVP in 21 countries from 2012 to 2018 to empirically examine the green effect of NEVP. The results indicate the following: (1) NEVP significantly reduces greenhouse gases emissions, and the green effect can be transmitted and diffused through a direct path. (2) Replacing fuel-fired vehicles and accelerating the end-of-life vehicle scrapping process significantly conducted the green effect, and aggravating traffic congestion was not statistically significant. (3) The transmission mechanism of the green effect is regulated by regional economic heterogeneity. In regions with better development of fuel-fired vehicles, the transmission of the green effect is subject to the elimination of fuel-fired vehicles and traffic congestion governance, and the transmission efficiency is low. However, regions with a relatively weak fuel-fired automobile industry foundation show a strong “advantage of backwardness”, and the green effect is more prominent. This means that global NEVP should be further accelerated to achieve the green effect and the goal of global carbon neutrality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 332-340"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000870/pdfft?md5=6d8e07e11ac309cfa62b848af4b976ab&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000870-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84298886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review and prospect of comprehensive straw utilization and government policy in China","authors":"Haitian Li,&nbsp;Zhuang Miao,&nbsp;Bo Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The comprehensive use and efficient management of straw are significant for agriculture's green and low-carbon transformation. This paper uses literature research and comparative analysis to systematically review the literature on comprehensive straw utilization and governance policy research in China over the past five years. The current literature has explored two major directions: regional and industrial policies and the main actors involved in the comprehensive use of straw. The research is complementary and fruitful concerning both micro and macro perspectives; however, the extant literature suffers from a lack of attention to straw intermediaries and enterprises and a lack of research across time. Therefore, this paper provides an outlook for future research. In the future, scholars should pay more attention to straw intermediaries and enterprises, conduct continuous observations of multiple regions over time to obtain panel data, and further test the heterogeneity of factors to obtain more scientific and valid results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 402-406"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000936/pdfft?md5=8499f25c408c155cbd89c274c5749cc8&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000936-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81339922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Framing climate strategy of the oil industry of China: A tailored approach to ecological modernization","authors":"Sidan Wang ,&nbsp;Süleyman Orhun Altiparmak","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>China has announced its ambitious targets of attaining a carbon peak before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Although China is a developing country, its oil sector plays a key role in carbon emissions and thus has a responsibility toward climate change. It is very important to understand the role of the oil industry of China in climate governance. This raises the following question: how have oil companies in China framed and tailored their climate strategies? By employing the concept of ecological modernization as a theoretical framework, this study observes the driving forces of climate policies, low-carbon energy, advanced technologies, and market mechanisms by collecting and analyzing reports published by three oil companies. The main findings are that state-owned oil companies in China have adopted the ideas and institutions of national climate strategies, low-carbon energy systems, and emerging financial and market tools. The analysis of the reports reveals that the main motives for the climate strategies of the companies are China’s administrative system, international climate cooperation, the transformation of the energy mix, and emerging market mechanisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 324-331"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000869/pdfft?md5=a61480965ff6679977f5e1ca78ff09dd&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000869-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74291452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital economy, industrial structure, and carbon emissions: An empirical study based on a provincial panel data set from China","authors":"Shuxing Chen ,&nbsp;Denglong Ding ,&nbsp;Guihong Shi ,&nbsp;Gengxuan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper uses the mediation effect and a spatial panel model using panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2019 to study the relationship between the digital economy, industrial structure, and carbon emission. The research results show that the development of digital economy can effectively promote the reduction of carbon emissions. The development of the digital economy has a significant role in promoting the rationalization of the industrial structure. The digital economy not only directly suppresses carbon emissions, but also indirectly has a significant inhibitory effect on carbon emissions by promoting the rationalization and improvement of the industrial structure. The development of the digital economy suppresses the optimization of the industrial structure. The improvement of industrialization has hindered the industrialization process. It is necessary to strengthen research and development into digital technology and enhance the capacity of the digital economy to promote carbon emissions reduction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 316-323"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000857/pdfft?md5=0747b09be2090c58ebbfb26ecdac4f8d&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000857-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75987670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does the construction of China’s ecological civilization affect the health burden of urban and rural residents?","authors":"Longlong Duan ,&nbsp;Linmei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Accelerating the construction of ecological civilization and promoting the management of health environment problems is one of the core elements of the implementation of the “Beautiful China” and “Healthy China” strategies with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Based on the scientific connotation of ecological civilization, this paper systematically assesses the level of interprovincial ecological civilization construction in China using the combined CRITIC empowerment method and explores the impact of ecological civilization construction on the health burden of urban and rural residents using interprovincial panel data from 2003 to 2018 with the help of panel feasible generalized least squares, simultaneous equation estimation, and the extended regression model. It is found that there is a significant inverted U-shaped relationship between provincial ecological civilization construction and urban and rural residents’ economic health burden, as well as a significant U-shaped relationship between ecological civilization construction and urban and rural residents’ disease burden. Fiscal decentralization, urbanization, and industrialization are the three important indirect mechanisms through which ecological civilization affects the health burden of urban and rural residents, and fiscal decentralization plays a typical role in crowding out the health effect of ecological civilization. In the eastern and central regions, ecological civilization construction has effectively reduced the health burden of urban and rural residents, but it is more significant for improving the economic health burden of rural residents. While the “catching-up trend” of the progress of ecological civilization construction in the western region is obvious, ecological civilization plays an important role in alleviating the economic health burden of urban residents. After the robustness test, the conclusion still holds. This study provides an important empirical basis for local governments to improve the accuracy of their policies in promoting the “Beautiful China” and “Healthy China” strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 369-382"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000900/pdfft?md5=5031d9bfc18295ccd9067ffc9125ab46&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000900-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85730983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can promoting ethanol gasoline usage improve air quality? Evidence from Tianjin, China","authors":"Lujiang Miao ,&nbsp;Zhixiang Xu ,&nbsp;Changyang Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2022.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Promoting the use of ethanol gasoline is an important approach for China to achieve sustainable and high-quality development. Based on the daily air quality data of Tianjin, China, from 2013 to 2020, this paper investigates whether the implementation of the ethanol gasoline policy helped improve air quality using regression discontinuity analysis. We find that the implementation of the ethanol gasoline policy had a very limited positive effect on the overall air quality index (AQI) and no obvious effect on the reduction of particulate matter (PM_2.5 and PM₁₀). However, the results reveal that the ethanol gasoline policy reduced SO₂, NO₂, and CO by about 36%, 19%, and 20%, respectively. These findings provide policy insights for other cities in China and other rapidly developing cities in the world to promote the use of ethanol gasoline.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 341-356"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2325426222000882/pdfft?md5=7ffcb939c1d992d261c163833ff094c9&pid=1-s2.0-S2325426222000882-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81734162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}