How Do Environmental Concerns and Governance Performance Affect Public Environmental Participation: A Case Study of Waste Sorting in Urban China

Environmental pollution threatens public health and has become a social concern in recent years. Despite the conditions for public participation in environmental governance have improved considerably, the level of public engagement in government projects still falls short of expectations. Therefore, this article introduced two key variables, hoping to answer the following research question that how environmental concerns and governance performance affect public environmental participation. Through principal component analysis of the data from the “Survey of Chinese Urban Residents’ Attitudes toward Environmental Protection”, the findings of this article are as follows: First, public environmental concerns have no significant impact on their environmental engagement; second, the improvement of residents’ confidence in the government performance of environmental management reduces their willingness to participate in official projects. The higher the confidence in the government’s performance, the lower the level of public engagement is. Moreover, due to the consideration of self-interest or lack of environmental awareness, those who oppose waste incineration in waste terminal disposal tend to take a non-participatory role in waste sorting programs. Therefore, we suggest that the government have more diverse shareholders in environmental protection, so it should expand public participation through education, publicity, mobilization, and incentives.

Indigenous Publicity in American Public Lands Controversies: Environmental Participation in the Fight for Bears Ears National Monument

Environmental decision-making scholars have attended closely to the role of publics and counterpublics in environmental controversies. However, this body of work has undertheorized the ways that Indigeneity may complicate access to or desirability of American publicity as a driving force in environmental advocacy. Inclusion within the American national body both functions as an advocacy tool for Native people and as a colonial discourse that may undermine sovereignty goals. Through a critical rhetorical analysis of documents at the center of the controversy over Bears Ears National Monument, this essay explicates the deployment of American publicity both to support and to undermine Native advocacy for the Monument. Scholars of rhetoric and environmental decision-making must re-orient toward publicity in a way that accounts for settler colonialism and decolonization.

Investigating the Relationship between Public Satisfaction and Public Environmental Participation during Government Treatment of Urban Malodorous Black River in China

During China’s rapid economic development and urbanization, numerous cases of urban malodorous black river (MBR) have occurred. MBR refers to a polluted urban river that smells bad, is almost black in color, has no aquatic plants or animals, and that consequently causes many social and environmental problems. The Chinese government has sought public participation during the whole process of MBR treatment as part of a comprehensive action plan to improve residents’ satisfaction with their environment. To investigate the influencing factors of public participation and satisfaction, a questionnaire survey was conducted among residential communities close to an MBR. SPSS 22.0 was employed to conduct an analysis of the collected data, using factor analysis, correlation analysis, and linear regression analysis. The results indicate that there is a direct relationship between public satisfaction and the factors of government treatment, public perception and public participation behaviors, such as engagement behavior, supervision behavior, health influence, and compensation measures.

Research on the impact of informal environmental regulation on investment of environmental pollution-Based on the perspective of public supervision

Based on provincial data from 2010 to 2015, this paper uses regression model to analyze the impact of informal environmental regulation on investment of environmental pollution. The regression result shows that informal environmental regulation can significantly promote environmental investment of environmental pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the mechanism of citizens’ environmental participation and strengthen environmental relative investment, ultimately promoting high-quality development.

Role of Affective Mediators in the Effects of Media Use on Proenvironmental Behavior

Much of the research on media use and environmental participation has examined the persuasive effects of media-motivated cognitive constructs on proenvironmental behavior, whereas the role of media-induced affective constructs has largely been neglected. To address this gap, this study examines how affective constructs (emotional responses and perceived knowledge) arise from media use and in what ways they contribute to environmental participation in the context of haze. Results from a web survey of 1,589 Chinese citizens suggest that traditional media use elicited more positive emotions than the use of new media, while new media use evoked more negative emotions than that of traditional media. Both traditional and new media use were positive predictors of perceived knowledge. Moreover, negative emotion, positive emotion, and perceived knowledge were all positively associated with proenvironmental behavior. The results of mediation analyses indicated that these affective constructs mediated the association between media use and proenvironmental behavior.

The Development of Environmental Recreation Camp Activities for Youth in Roi-Et Province of Thailand

This research aims to develop the environmental recreation camp activity for youth in Roi-Et province of Thailand, to compare environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes before and after participating in the camp, as will as their participating in Environment Recreation camp activities during and after participating in the camp of youths with different gender and domicile, and to study the relationship between environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes and participation in environmental recreation camp activities. The data were collected though a survey with 40 youths from Phanom Phrai Wittayakarn School, Phanom Phrai District, Roi-Et Province. The research instruments was the manuals questionnaire measuring environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes and participation in environmental recreation camp activity. The data were analysed by using descriptive statistic and hypothesis testing by using t-test, One-way MANCOVA, One-way ANOVA and Correlation analysis. The results of this research indicated as below Environment Recreation Camp Activities for Youth in Roi-Et Province had effectively is 85.17/83.44 and an effectiveness index is 0.6117. After participating in environment recreation camp activities, youths had higher environmental knowledge and environmental attitudes than before participating in the camp. After participating in environment recreation camp activities, youth had higher participation in environment recreation camp activities than during participating in camp. The sample youths with different gender and domicile had no different environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes, and environmental participation. Environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes, and participation in environmental recreation camp activities were not correlated.

Examining green capabilities as drivers of green supply chain management adoption

Purpose While there is a growing pool of literature on the drivers of adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices, the literature has not properly explored the role of green capabilities as drivers of GSCM adoption. This study aims to examine four green capabilities (green supplier development, green marketing, green manufacturing and packaging and environmental participation) as the drivers of GSCM adoption. Design/methodology/approach The study develops and empirically tests a research model which explores the effect of green capabilities on GSCM adoption. A survey of 200 manufacturing and extractive firms operating in Ghana was conducted, with 94 usable responses obtained. The research model was analyzed by using partial least squares structural equation modeling. Findings The results revealed that green supplier development capabilities and environmental participation capabilities had positive and significant effects on GSCM adoption. Green marketing capabilities had a positive but weak effect on GSCM adoption. Green manufacturing and packaging capabilities, however, did not significantly impact GSCM adoption. Originality/value To the best of the researchers’ knowledge, this is the first study that empirically examines green capabilities as drivers of GSCM adoption.

Determinants of General Satisfaction With the Employment Situation Among People With Multiple Sclerosis

BackgroundSocial and environmental participation endeavors are theorized to shape one's general satisfaction with the overall employment situation facing people with MS.ObjectiveResponding to a national survey of the employment concerns of Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS), this study examined the extent to which factors at the demographic, disease-related, and social and environmental participation levels contribute to the predictability power for general satisfaction with the employment situation for people with MS.MethodParticipants in this study consisted of 1,149 members of nine National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) chapters representing 21 states and Washington, DC. In a hierarchical multiple regression analysis, participants were mostly older (average age of 50 years) White (74%) individuals, nearly half of whom were unemployed (47%) but well educated (98% were high school graduates, 45% were college graduates).FindingsFindings underscore the complexity involved in predicting how satisfied people with MS are with their overall employment situation.ConclusionsYounger, less educated individuals with higher levels of perceived quality of life who were employed full-time and experiencing no or lower levels of cognitive impairment were more likely than other participants to be satisfied with 17 high-priority employment concerns.

PUSAT PELATIHAN KARAKTER UNTUK MILENIAL

Millennial generation is the generation of births around 1980 to 2000 and in productive age. This generation has a problem, where they tend to be lazy, out of focus and narcissistic. There are 4 factors that cause it. First, this generation becomes depressed when in the workforce because there is no help from their parents and does not get what they want; second, this generation requires an addiction to the response of social media, which causes the absence of relations that improve between individuals; third, they do not last long in a company because they do not get what they want and want everything to be instant (inpatient); fourth, environmental participation that creates character of the individuals, where the environment at this time is more concerned with numbers than a community needs and only focus on short-term needs. In addition, the companies where they work don’t help/provide facilities to build cooperation and character development skills. Of all these problems, the millennial generation needs a facilities to develop their social skills, which can improve their ability to develop visions related to the development of their potential and innovation. Therefore, they need a character training center, with supporting facilities such as foodhall, shared work space, and gym facilities, where those supporting facilities can help the process of character training. This character training center has a concept that prioritizes togetherness and sociability with the "the c’s" method. AbstrakGenerasi millennial adalah generasi kelahiran sekitar tahun 1980 sampai dengan 2000 dan sedang dalam usia produktif. Generasi ini memiliki sebuah isu, dimana mereka cenderung malas, tidak fokus dan narsis. Terdapat 4 faktor penyebabnya. Pertama, generasi ini menjadi depresi saat di dunia kerja karena tidak adanya bantuan dari orangtua dan tidak mendapatkan apa yang mereka inginkan; kedua, generasi ini cenderung kecanduan akan respon dari media sosial, dimana hal tersebut menyebabkan tidak adanya relasi yang kuat antar individu; ketiga, mereka cenderung tidak bertahan lama dalam suatu perusahaan karena mereka merasa tidak mendapatkan apa yang mereka inginkan dan ingin semuanya serba instan (tidak sabaran); keempat, lingkungan hidup yang membentuk karakter dari individu, dimana lingkungan hidup pada saat ini lebih mementingkan angka dibandingkan kebutuhan masyarakat dan hanya memikirkan kebutuhan jangka pendek. Selain itu, perusahaan tempat mereka bekerja cenderung tidak membantu/menyediakan fasilitas untuk membangun skill kerjasama dan pembangunan karakter. Dari semua isu tersebut, generasi millennial membutuhkan sebuah fasilitas untuk mengembangkan social skills mereka, dimana hal tersebut dapat mempengaruhi mereka dalam pembentukan visi hidup yang berhubungan dalam pengembangan potensi dan inovasi mereka. Oleh sebab itu, mereka membutuhkan suatu Character Training Center, dengan fasilitas pendukung seperti foodhall, co-working space dan fasilitas gym, dimana fasilitas pendukung tersebut dapat membantu sebuah proses character training. Character Training Center ini memiliki konsep dimana mengutamakan togetherness and sociability dengan metode “the c’s”.