Study On The Relationship Between Rural Residents’ Climate Change Cognition And Willingness To Act

Rural areas are vulnerable to climate change. Studying on the relationship between rural residents’climate change cognition and willingness to act has great significance for promoting China’s response action. This article was based on survey data of30counties in Jiangsu, Shandong and Anhui Provinces, from "response to climate change study" subject of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology College in2011, using PLS regression and Multinomial Logistic regression model, then further analyzed the relationship between rural residents’ climate change cognition and willingness to act in two levels, including degree and type of willingness to act. The main conclusions include:(1)In personal attributes, gender and education are the main factors affecting rural residents’ climate change cognition. Women’s willingness to act is higher than men’s. The education higher, willingness to act is more.(2)Rural residents’climate change cognition has significant relationship with willingness to act degree. The main influencing factors are certainty degree of domestic action and cognition of greenhouse effect. When promoting climate change knowledge in the future, we must strengthen these two aspects, to effectively improve rural residents’ willingness to act.(3)There was no significant correlation between most rural residents’ climate change cognition and action type. The influences of rural residents’ agricultural production higher, rural residents are more likely to choose individual action than relying on government. This may be due to lacking of government’s response action, and we should enhance government’s support to improve rural residents’willingness to act. This paper has the certain reference value on understanding rural residents’ response to climate change, and how to more targeted, effectively improve the rural residents’ willingness to act of climate change. This article mainly studied the relationship between rural residents’climate change cognition and willingness to act. The innovation of the research contents is that the paper compared the relationship between rural residents’ climate change cognition, degree and type of willingness to act. The innovation of the research conclusion is that rural residents’ climate change cognition has significant relationship with willingness to act degree, while it has no significant relationship with action type. Action type is only related to influences of rural residents’ agricultural production...