The impact of livelihood capital on the pro-environmental behavior of indigenous residents in the Qinling National Park creation area:An analysis based on the perspective of fairness perception
The pro-environmental behavior of indigenous residents in neighboring communities can have a direct or indirect impact on the effectiveness of ecological conservation,which is a crucial factor driving the establishment of national parks.Based on the survey data of 513 indig-enous residents in Qinling National Park creation area,OLS regression and Bootstrap method were used to investigate the impact of livelihood capital on indigenous residents'pro-environ-mental behavior and its mechanism.The findings of the study indicate that the participation of indigenous people in pro-environmental behavior is lower in the public domain compared to the private domain.Additionally,the residents surveyed possessed abundant financial capital and comparatively less natural capital.Livelihood capital was found to have a significant im-pact on pro-environmental behavior.Specifically,public pro-environmental behavior showed positive correlations with human capital and social capital,while private pro-environmental be-havior displayed positive correlations with human capital and financial capital,but a negative correlation with natural capital.The study highlighted that distributive fairness,procedural fair-ness,and interactive fairness play mediating roles in the relationship between livelihood capital and pro-environmental behavior.Procedural fairness had the highest mediating effect,followed by interactive fairness and distributive fairness.Therefore,in the construction of national parks,it is necessary to enhance the accumulation of livelihood capital of indigenous residents through multiple channels,correct the inequity of existing policies,ensure community participa-tion in decision-making,and strengthen communication with indigenous residents,so as to di-rectly or indirectly increase the level of fairness perception of indigenous residents,and pro-mote the implementation of pro-environmental behaviors by indigenous residents.
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