TY - JOUR
T1 - How important is community participation to eco-environmental conservation in protected areas? From the perspective of predicting locals' pro-environmental behaviours
AU - Zhang, Yuling
AU - Xiao, Xiao
AU - Cao, Ruibing
AU - Zheng, Chunhui
AU - Guo, Yongrui
AU - Gong, Weixia
AU - Wei, Zongcai
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the GDAS ' Project of Science and Technology Development [ 2020GDASYL-20200104007 ] and National Natural Science Foundation of China [ 41801144 , 41801135 , 41871126 , 41801150 ].
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/10/15
Y1 - 2020/10/15
N2 - Community participation is considered an effective measure to protect the eco-environment and to improve people's livelihoods in protected areas. However, it has not received enough attention at the practical level in most developing countries, and it is unclear how important it is in stimulating locals' pro-environmental behaviours to achieve eco-environmental protection goals. This study focuses on the relationship among community participation, perception changes in livelihood capitals and place attachment, which are related to residents' production, livelihoods, and pro-environmental behaviours. The study uses a convenience sampling method in the Nanling National Nature Reserve, China. Regression analysis results show that community participation is the most powerful predictor of pro-environmental behaviours. Furthermore, community participation moderates the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental behaviours. In addition, perception changes in livelihood capitals positively affect pro-environmental behaviours in the high-level community participation group while having negative or positive results in the low-level community participation group. The findings, which emphasize the importance of community participation in conservation, provide a better understanding of the differences in pro-environmental behaviours between high and low community participation groups and will aid future development and conservation planning of these initiatives.
AB - Community participation is considered an effective measure to protect the eco-environment and to improve people's livelihoods in protected areas. However, it has not received enough attention at the practical level in most developing countries, and it is unclear how important it is in stimulating locals' pro-environmental behaviours to achieve eco-environmental protection goals. This study focuses on the relationship among community participation, perception changes in livelihood capitals and place attachment, which are related to residents' production, livelihoods, and pro-environmental behaviours. The study uses a convenience sampling method in the Nanling National Nature Reserve, China. Regression analysis results show that community participation is the most powerful predictor of pro-environmental behaviours. Furthermore, community participation moderates the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental behaviours. In addition, perception changes in livelihood capitals positively affect pro-environmental behaviours in the high-level community participation group while having negative or positive results in the low-level community participation group. The findings, which emphasize the importance of community participation in conservation, provide a better understanding of the differences in pro-environmental behaviours between high and low community participation groups and will aid future development and conservation planning of these initiatives.
KW - Community participation
KW - Eco-environment conservation
KW - Perception changes in livelihood capitals
KW - Place attachment
KW - Pro-environmental behaviours
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139889
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139889
M3 - Article
C2 - 32534312
AN - SCOPUS:85086072945
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 739
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
M1 - 139889
ER -