A Study On Construction Of Environmental Civil Society In Dongguan City

The continuing deterioration of the ecological environment has threatened human health and survival, therefore, the human concerns on environmental issues have prompted more and more countries attach importance to the construction of environmental citizens. The economy of Dongguan City has been developing rapidly since the reform and opening up, but the environmental protection has been ignored. Dongguan City is gathered for the labor-intensive industries, and the population ratio of resident population and floating population reaches1:3.5. Diversity, mixed and complex of population increase the difficulty of participating the processing of environmental protection for people. Therefore, the important research direction in Dongguan City are how to establish a good mode for all people involved in environmental protection and how to build environmental civil society, which has become a major task of building a happy Dongguan and harmonious society for current and future Dongguan.Based on the literature review and empirical background, this paper states the concepts of environmental citizens and environmental civil society, builds a theoretical analysis model of the environmental civil society, points out that the environmental civil society is made up of the level of consciousness, the behavioral level, organizational level, system level, and constructs these theories of Dongguan environmental civil society from the four dimensions of awareness of ethics, personal behavior, the behavior of others and the overall social atmosphere.Stratified sampling method was used to conduct a questionnaire survey of4272samples in33towns of Dongguan, in which2905questionnaires are valid. According to these questionnaires, this paper investigates and analyzes Dongguan’s current civic characteristics, civic awareness of environmental protection, the behavior of citizen awareness of environmental protection, environmental protection situation, residents and social environmental education, effectiveness of the environmental protection, environmental protection facilities, and summarizes the status of the characteristics of the citizens of Dongguan and Dongguan environmental citizens classification. Through analyzing the environmental citizens classification andcitizens behavior by the logistic model, this paper concludes that the factors of age, gender, local residents or the transient, occupational character, citizen income have significant effect on citizens’ environmental behavior. However, the marital status and residential district before18years old was not significant. The education level indicates no significance because of the proportion of releasing questionnaire possibly.This article applies structural equation model for the influencing factors of environmental citizens’ construction and the interaction path and concludes that environmental behavior of others has positive effect to environmental awareness; however the effect of increasing environmental public service is not significant; the others’ evaluation of environmental behavior has insignificant effect to individual environmental behavior; though the degree of environmental public service satisfaction has significant effect to the change of environmental behavior.; moreover the service of environmental education and identification could change citizen preference to improve environmental behavior; the influencing factors of environmental awareness and environmental behavior are different, and the relationship was not obvious between each other.Finally, the article gives main ideas and policy recommendations of Dongguan establishment of environmental civil society, from public services, environmental participation, growth of social organizations, civic behavior, Dongguan establishment of environmental civil society ideas and policy recommendations.