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Farmers’ Household Waste Disposal Behavior and Its Influencing Factors in Developing Countries: Evidence from Jiangsu, China
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | The improper disposal of household waste is a major reason for the deterioration of rural ecological environment in developing countries. As the main producer of rural household waste, farmers' behavior is very important to solve the problem. Based on the data of 671 surveys in Jiangsu, China, the influencing factors of farmers' household waste disposal behavior and their hierarchical relationships were determined by Logit-ISM model. The study finds that there are 7 factors that significantly affect household waste disposal behavior of farmers, among which Major domestic fuel, Clearance of centralized waste dump site and Neighbor's way of disposing household waste are the surface factors; Identifying capacity for pollutants, Major economic source and Availability of centralized waste disposal facility are the intermediate factors; Fixed-point waste disposal policy and its implementation effect is the deeprooted factor. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.15666/aeer/1704_87378748 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://aloki.hu/pdf/1704_87378748.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.15666/aeer%2F1704_87378748 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |