What Influences Personal Participation In Environmental Movement

The roots of the idea and orgnazion of environmental movement trace back the early environmental protection movement in late 18 century, with through bud stage, growing stage and wave stage; it began to influence nearby contries and regions. Particularly, in the late part of last century, while the new ideas gradually rose up in developing countries, environmental movement come from the West spread to the third world countries. In China, formerly environmental movement was merely initiated by individual due to naive pro-nature, with the deficiency of public participation. Meanwhile, sparsely individual pro-environmental actions are too weak to make environmental protection in sence.Contrast to individual pro-environmental action, this article sheds the light on public participation in environmental movements. Therefore, the author tries to figure out what influences people's participant in particular environmental movement by using quantitative research method. Then the text points out the characteristics of individual behavior under the environmental movement scope, thus inquiry into the condition of environmental movement in current China, which certainly has realistic meaning.This article analyzed field data of Xiamen anti-PX movement, the outcomes indicate that the invidual participation in environmental movement is influenced by following factors: gender, political stand, habitation in demography dimension; the type of work organization, annual income and house ownership in social and economic characteristic dimension; pollution perception, effectiveness expection and quit probability in psychical dynamics dimension; cognition, values and attitudes in environmental consciousness dimension; networks amd work orgnzation hierarchy. Then the author propose a integrated model, which finds that age, annual income, house ownership, environmental cognition and values, networks variables are impact individual participation in environmental movement. Briefly, ecomic, consiousness and social network fators influence individual partipation intensity in environmental movement. Additionally, this thesis discussed social system and structural perspective as well.The findings of this article are stated as follow. Firstly, usinga multiple variables explanation framework which combined by four dimensions of social and economic factor, psychological factor, environmental consciousness factor and social network factor to analyze data, find out the great contribution made by the middle class of Xiamen in this Anti-PX movement. Secondly, this thesis employs a random sample inquiry which aims to actors who involved into the Xiamen anti-PX movement. And then, this thesis utilizes advance statistics anlysis to work out main components and merge them into multiple variables for reflecting the real individual behavior in environmental movement. In the meanwhile, this article finds some factors of individual participation action, namely, they are instrumental participation action and emotional participation action.