Research on the recycling and disposal of Chinese pesticide packaging waste based on evolutionary game theory

Zhang, Shibin; Gao, Jiale; Wang, Haining

doi:10.1080/03601234.2023.2241318

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“…This issue is exacerbated by the lack of precise enforcement of existing regulations and insufficient attention from environmental protection authorities, significantly contributing to the pollution problem [14,15]. Because recycling PPW by RHs generates positive externalities [16], offering subsidies to RHs has emerged as a relatively effective approach to encourage responsible disposal practices [5,17,18]. It is important to note that sociological scholars have examined RHs' PPW disposal behavior through the lens of SNs.…”

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The Influence of Social Norms and Environmental Regulations on Rural Households’ Pesticide Packaging Waste Disposal Behavior

Zhang,

Weng

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Sustainability

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The agricultural ecological environment provides an important resource guarantee for social development. The extensive management mode of agriculture in China has not fundamentally changed; the contradiction between production and governance is still prominent, and the management of agricultural surface pollution has a long way to go. Based on the data from 572 rural households in Jiangxi province, this paper uses the Ordered Logit, 2SLS, and the moderation effect model to analyze the mechanism between social norms (SNs) and rural households’ (RHs) disposal of pesticide packaging waste (PPW) and to test the moderation effect of environmental regulation (ER) in the influence path of SN to RHs’ disposal of PPW. The results show that (1) descriptive norms and directive norms promote RHs not littering PPW; the probability of RHs not littering PPW increases by 4.0% for each unit decrease in descriptive norms, and the probability of RHs not littering PPW increases by 12.1% when there are directive norms, but the directive norms are more significant than the descriptive norms. Consistent conclusions were obtained after the robustness test and endogeneity treatment. (2) Reputational incentives strengthen the promotional effect of directive norms on RHs’ behavior of not littering PPW; punitive regulations hinder the promotional effect of descriptive norms on RHs’ behavior of not littering PPW. Based on the findings of the study, the following policy recommendations are put forward: Actively cultivate SNs and give full play to their role in promoting RHs’ choice of the disposal behavior of PPW; improve the role of ER in regulating RHs’ choice of the disposal behavior of PPW; guide the ER and SNs to work in coordination.

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The Influence of Social Norms and Environmental Regulations on Rural Households’ Pesticide Packaging Waste Disposal Behavior

Zhang,

Weng

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Evaluating Trends and Identifying Research Gaps: A Thematic and Evolutionary Bibliometric Analysis of Deposit Refund Systems (1938–2024)

Rotsios,

Mavidis,

Folinas

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Communications in Computer and Information Science

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The Influence of Social Norms and Environmental Regulations on Rural Households' Pesticide Packaging Waste Disposal Behavior

Zhang,

Weng

et al. 2023

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The agricultural ecological environment provides an important resource guarantee for social development. The extensive management mode of agriculture in China has not fundamentally changed; the contradiction between production and governance is still prominent, and the management of agricultural surface pollution has a long way to go. Based on the data of 547 rural households in Jiangxi province, this paper uses the Ordered Logit, 2SLS, and moderation effect model to analyze the mechanism between social norms (SNs) and rural households’ (RHs) disposal of pesticide packaging waste (PPW) and to test the moderation effect of environmental regulation (ER) in the influence path of SN to RHs’ disposal of PPW. The results show that (1) descriptive and directive norms can promote RHs not to litter PPW. However, the role of surrounding crowd supervision (directive norms) is more obvious than the behavior of the surrounding crowd (descriptive norms). The consistent conclusion was still obtained after the robustness test and endogeneity treatment. (2) The results of the moderation effect test showed that reputational incentives strengthened the promotional effect of directive norms on RHs' behavior of not littering PPW; punitive regulation hindered the promotional effect of descriptive norms on RHs' behavior of not littering PPW. Based on the findings of the study, the following policy recommendations are put forward: continue to strengthen the guidance and soft binding force of informal institutions such as SNs; accurately locate the target groups and formulate differentiated measures; pay attention to the complementary nature of formal and informal institutions, and reasonably formulate environmental regulations to fit in with SNs.

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Research on the recycling and disposal of Chinese pesticide packaging waste based on evolutionary game theory

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The Influence of Social Norms and Environmental Regulations on Rural Households’ Pesticide Packaging Waste Disposal Behavior

The Influence of Social Norms and Environmental Regulations on Rural Households’ Pesticide Packaging Waste Disposal Behavior

Evaluating Trends and Identifying Research Gaps: A Thematic and Evolutionary Bibliometric Analysis of Deposit Refund Systems (1938–2024)

The Influence of Social Norms and Environmental Regulations on Rural Households' Pesticide Packaging Waste Disposal Behavior

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