China's rural human settlements: Qualitative evaluation, quantitative analysis and policy implications
China's rural human settlements: Qualitative evaluation, quantitative analysis and policy implications
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中国农村人居环境：定性评价、定量分析及政策启示
DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.01.006
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Li Pengfei
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文献类型：
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作者：
Zhao Xia;Sun Huibo;Chen Bin;Xia Xiaohua;Li Pengfei
建设美丽宜居乡村是农民福祉的根本，有助于中国社会主义新农村的发展。作为农村人居环境建设的主要受益者，农民是农村人居环境建设的主要受益者。因此，本文建立了一个理论框架，定性和定量地评价硬和软农村人居环境。基于对我国中东部6省（市）的调查，运用结构方程模型对理论框架进行了检验。实证结果表明，被调查农户对当地农村人居环境的满意度不高，需要进行改善。不仅如此，农村卫生、住房条件、农村基础设施、农民经济负担、社会服务与农村人居环境之间存在显著相关性，农村卫生和社会服务分别在硬、软人居环境指标中排名靠前。因此，政府应优先考虑农村卫生和社会服务，分别改善硬和软人类住区。本文的讨论可为政策制定者有效改善农村人居环境提供坚实的基础。
Building a beautiful and livable countryside is essential to farmers’ wellbeing, contributing to the development of New Socialist Countryside in China. Few of the existing studies have established a sound theoretical framework to evaluate rural human settlements from the perspective of farmers, who are the major beneficiaries of the rural human settlements. Therefore, this paper establishes a theoretical framework to evaluate both hard and soft rural human settlements qualitatively and quantitatively. Based on surveys from 6 provinces (cities) in central and eastern China, the theoretical framework is tested using Structural Equation Model (SEM). The empirical results show that the surveyed farmers are vaguely unsatisfied with their local rural human settlements, making improvement a must. Moreover, there is a significant correlation between rural sanitation, housing condition, rural infrastructure, farmers’ economic burden, social services and rural human settlements, with rural sanitation and social services ranking at the top among the hard and soft human settlement indexes, respectively. Thus, the government should prioritize rural sanitation and social services to improve hard and soft human settlements, respectively. The discussions in this paper could provide solid foundations for policy makers to effectively improve rural human settlements.