Effect of guiding policy on urban residents’ behavior to use recycled water

Abstract

a b s t r a c tAt present, the promotion policy for the reuse of recycled water adopted in China gives priority to mandatory administrative orders but ignores the policy guidance for residents' behavior to use recycled water. Based on the above practical problems, this research combines the characteristics of recycled water reuse, then reduces the behavior guiding policy for the potential use of recycled water to environmental motivation stimulating policy, demonstration guiding policy, and combined with the mechanisms of different policies, the extreme shortage of water resources, the promotion degree of regional recycled water reuse, and the reuse of recycled water in a natural environment are selected as the abstract indicators of environmental motivation stimulating policy, demonstration guiding policy, and knowledge popularization policy. The above indicators are taken as control variables, and control groups are set to simulate the mechanisms of different policies. The residents' willingness to accept the reuse of recycled water is taken as a dependent variable, and a structural equation model is used for a variance analysis of data between different control groups. Finally, it is verified under the natural state that the three types of policies have a significant guiding effect on the reuse of recycled water.

Effect of Cognitive Variables and Emotional Variables on Urban Residents’ Recycled Water Reuse Behavior

“…Some scholars have studied the factors that affect an urban resident's recycled water reuse behavior, including risks, objectives, guiding policies, etc. [31,32]. However, it should be noted that this analytical framework is static and discontinuous, and it regards the occurrence of individual behavior as an isolated behavior only subjectively, while ignoring the dynamic development process of its behavior occurrence, that is, recycled water reuse.…”