The Impact of Family Sustainable Livelihood and Environmental Cognition on Herdsmen’s Choice of Production Behavior

Abstract

This study analyzed the influence of sustainable livelihood and environmental cognition on herdsmen’s production behaviors on basis of logistic model. The consequences illustrated that the social capital followed by material capital, financial capital, and human capital has the greatest impact on herdsmen’s production behaviors, but the natural capital played a vital role in promoting herdsmen’s choice of raising breeding scale. The area and quality of grassland in herdsman families’ sustainable livelihood could encourage herdsmen to increase breeding scale, while the quantity of livestock, structure of house, the number of labor, the level of education, the status of health, and the income of families could promote herdsmen to restrain the breeding scale. The cognition of policy and ecological environment also had a significant positive effect on herdsmen restraining breeding scale.

How Does Capital Endowment Impact Farmers’ Green Production Behavior? Perspectives on Ecological Cognition and Environmental Regulation

“…Capital endowment is the core independent variable in this paper. Consistent with relevant studies [14,16,21,22], we establish an indicator system of capital endowment from the four aspects of natural, economic, human, and social capital, and adopt the entropy method to assign weight to 15 indicators to calculate the dimensional and aggregate scores of capital endowment. The entropy method utilizes information entropy to calculate the discrete degree of indicator, which is an objective, comprehensive, and priori result-free method for the evaluation of multiple indicators' system [21].…”

“…Households with a greater labor force have broader access to livelihoods; so, family agricultural laborers have more energy to concentrate on green production management [23]. In addition, the quantity and quality of labor are essential guarantees of agricultural management with a significant impact on the production methods of farmers [16]. Social capital refers to the resources obtained within a specific social structure, such as social networks, trust, and involvement [47].…”

“…In terms of internal factors, capital endowment refers to the various resources and capabilities that a household and its members possess innately or acquire later and can use as objective support to sustain production and livelihood [14,15]. Capital endowment objectively represents farmers' behavioral capabilities and ultimately determines the actual level and effectiveness of green production [16]. A large number of studies have reached a consensus on its positive effect [17][18][19][20].…”

Retracted: The Impact of Family Sustainable Livelihood and Environmental Cognition on Herdsmen’s Choice of Production Behavior

“…Tis article has been retracted by Hindawi, as publisher, following an investigation undertaken by the publisher [1]. Tis investigation has uncovered evidence of systematic manipulation of the publication and peer-review process.…”