A study on the decision-making mechanism and promotion policy of urban residents’ domestic waste-classification behavior: evidence from Sichuan province

The classification policy of urban domestic waste affects social welfare and sustainable development. Urban residents’ behaviors are crucial to the policy. This paper proposes a decision model of urban residents’ domestic waste-classification behaviors. Using the NetLogo simulation platform, a “poli...

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Published in:Environment, development and sustainability Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 571 - 607
Main Authors: Dong, Qianyu, Yan, Rui, Xiong, Runli, Xie, Weikai, Pang, Min, Liang, Lin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2025
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Behavior
China
Citizen participation
Classification
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Command and control
Commands
Community involvement
Community support
Decision making
decision support systems
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecology
Economic factors
Economic Geology
Economic Growth
Economics
Education
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental impact
Environmental Management
Household wastes
Incentives
issues and policy
Mobilization
Norms
Residents
Selfishness
Simulation
Simulation models
Social behavior
Social development
Social welfare
Sustainable Development
Theory of planned behavior
Urban areas
Urban development
Urban policy
Urban population
Waste management
Wastes
China
Influencing factors
Sustainable development
Urban residents
Domestic waste classification
Structural-equation model
ISSN:1573-2975, 1387-585X, 1573-2975
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Summary:The classification policy of urban domestic waste affects social welfare and sustainable development. Urban residents’ behaviors are crucial to the policy. This paper proposes a decision model of urban residents’ domestic waste-classification behaviors. Using the NetLogo simulation platform, a “policy-behavior” simulation model was built to explore the impacts of different policy tools on residents’ waste-classification behaviors. The results show that community support, perceived utility, government mobilization and environmental cognition are important factors explaining residents’ waste-classification behaviors. Informative, command-and-control, economic-incentive policy tools can significantly promote residents’ waste classification. Moreover, the incentive effect of informative, command-and-control policy tools, increases as the intensity of policy intervention increases. However, the incentive effect of economic-incentive policy tools increases and then decreases.
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ISSN:1573-2975
1387-585X
1573-2975
DOI:10.1007/s10668-024-04740-0