Determinants of Public Participation in Watershed Management in Southeast China: An Application of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
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identifier citation: Land 13 (11): 1824 (2024)
creator: Zeng, Daile
creator: Chen, Boya
creator: Wang, Jingxin
creator: Innes, John L.
creator: Lu, Juliet
creator: Guo, Futao
creator: Yan, Yancun
creator: Wang, Guangyu
issued: 2024-12-06T15:11:27Z
issued: 2024-11-02
description: Increasingly, adaptive processes and decentralization are vital aspects of watershed governance. Equitable and sustainable water governance requires an understanding that different societal members have unique relationships with the environment and varying levels of interaction with policymakers. However, the factors facilitating public involvement under centralized governance remain less understood. This study combined the Institutional Analysis and Development framework with ordered probit regression to empirically investigate the determinants of willingness to participate (WTP) and actual participation of the public in integrated watershed management (IWM). Data from 933 valid questionnaires collected across 36 counties in Fujian, China, were used to define stakeholders’ perceptions of IWM. Results show that stakeholders are predominantly willing to participate in watershed conservation, management, or planning (85.9%), while only 32.8% frequently attend related events. Pro-environmental intentions were mainly shaped by interactional capacity—information exposure, interpersonal exchanges, and cross-reach support recognition—while actual participation was influenced by perceived biophysical conditions, rules-in-use, socioeconomic factors, and interactional capacity. Frequent observations of poor forest management practices were correlated with higher behavioral intentions, and socioeconomic dynamics significantly affected self-reported actual participation. Information sharing had the most substantial positive impact on both WTP and actual participation. These findings reinforce the necessity for an integrated and holistic approach to regional watershed resource management that fosters inclusivity and sustainability. This study provides workable insights into the social and institutional factors that shape public participation in watershed governance as it evolves toward decentralization.
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note: Citation: Zeng, D.; Chen, B.; Wang, J.;Innes, J.L.; Lu, J.; Guo, F.; Yan, Y.;Wang, G. Determinants of PublicParticipation in WatershedManagement in Southeast China:An Application of the InstitutionalAnalysis and DevelopmentFramework. Land 2024, 13, 1824.https://doi.org/10.3390/land13111824Academic Editors: Carlos RogérioMello and Paulette PosenReceived: 20 September 2024Revised: 31 October 2024Accepted: 1 November 2024Published: 2 November 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).ArticleDeterminants of Public Participation in Watershed Managementin Southeast China: An Application of the Institutional Analysisand Development FrameworkDaile Zeng 1 , Boya Chen 2 , Jingxin Wang 3, John L. Innes 1 , Juliet Lu 1, Futao Guo 4 , Yancun Yan 1and Guangyu Wang 1,*1 Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;daile.zeng@ubc.ca (D.Z.); john.innes@ubc.ca (J.L.I.); juliet.lu@ubc.ca (J.L.); yancun@mail.ubc.ca (Y.Y.)2 Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; boya_chen@sfu.ca3 School of Management, Yale University, 165 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511, USA;alice.jx.wang@yale.edu4 College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; guofutao@126.com* Correspondence: guangyu.wang@ubc.caAbstract: Increasingly, adaptive processes and decentralization are vital aspects of watershed gov-ernance. Equitable and sustainable water governance requires an understanding that differentsocietal members have unique relationships with the environment and varying levels of interac-tion with policymakers. However, the factors facilitating public involvement under centralizedgovernance remain less understood. This study combined the Institutional Analysis and Devel-opment framewor…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0447420
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/land13111824
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: public participation
subject: questionnaire analysis
subject: integrated watershed management
subject: interactional capacity
subject: institutional analysis and development framework
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89796