What Is Affecting the Residents’ Subjective Perception toward Objective Environment Quality?
Environmental quality assessment is an important way to promote the improvement of urban environmental quality. Environmental performance is usually used to evaluate the improvement of environmental quality, and residents’ satisfaction with environmental quality is also an important method to evalua...
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| description | Environmental quality assessment is an important way to promote the improvement of urban environmental quality. Environmental performance is usually used to evaluate the improvement of environmental quality, and residents’ satisfaction with environmental quality is also an important method to evaluate environmental improvement. At present, in many cities in China, the results of the two evaluation methods vary greatly. Residents’ environmental satisfaction is not high in some cities with good environmental performance; however, in cities with poor environmental performance, residents’ environmental satisfaction is higher. Here, based on the environmental subjective assessment of more than 4,600 independent samples from 56 cities in 2014, this paper constructed an index between subjective and objective scores for each sample and its city, separating the total samples into two groups. In order to analyze the differences between groups, firstly, the important factors driving the differences were extracted by random forest. Secondly, the key individual characteristics were identified by the model based on conditional inference tree. Finally, the regional heterogeneity was analyzed by nonmetric multidimensional scaling. The results show that population density is the main factor that affects the difference between subjective and objective evaluations. Furthermore, in those cities with low population density, investment increasing in transportation infrastructure helps to improve urban air quality, which can bring about more perceptual environmental optimization to people. As individuals, education is the key factor for residents when it comes to environment evaluation, but it is not a simple linear relationship. In terms of regional heterogeneity, the consistency of important factors among regions is not obvious, and the situation that “neighboring” cities share the same factors is not significant. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6e8816e8b0224f8383b550224355f4c52025-02-03T01:27:01ZengWileyDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society1026-02261607-887X2021-01-01202110.1155/2021/55404025540402What Is Affecting the Residents’ Subjective Perception toward Objective Environment Quality?Jihong Zhang0Chaopeng Xie1Chuan Chen2Ninghan Xu3Rui Gao4Institute of Quality Development Strategy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaInstitute of Quality Development Strategy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaDepartment of Service Science and Operations Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaInstitute of Quality Development Strategy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaInstitute of Quality Development Strategy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaEnvironmental quality assessment is an important way to promote the improvement of urban environmental quality. Environmental performance is usually used to evaluate the improvement of environmental quality, and residents’ satisfaction with environmental quality is also an important method to evaluate environmental improvement. At present, in many cities in China, the results of the two evaluation methods vary greatly. Residents’ environmental satisfaction is not high in some cities with good environmental performance; however, in cities with poor environmental performance, residents’ environmental satisfaction is higher. Here, based on the environmental subjective assessment of more than 4,600 independent samples from 56 cities in 2014, this paper constructed an index between subjective and objective scores for each sample and its city, separating the total samples into two groups. In order to analyze the differences between groups, firstly, the important factors driving the differences were extracted by random forest. Secondly, the key individual characteristics were identified by the model based on conditional inference tree. Finally, the regional heterogeneity was analyzed by nonmetric multidimensional scaling. The results show that population density is the main factor that affects the difference between subjective and objective evaluations. Furthermore, in those cities with low population density, investment increasing in transportation infrastructure helps to improve urban air quality, which can bring about more perceptual environmental optimization to people. As individuals, education is the key factor for residents when it comes to environment evaluation, but it is not a simple linear relationship. In terms of regional heterogeneity, the consistency of important factors among regions is not obvious, and the situation that “neighboring” cities share the same factors is not significant.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5540402 |
| spellingShingle | Jihong Zhang Chaopeng Xie Chuan Chen Ninghan Xu Rui Gao What Is Affecting the Residents’ Subjective Perception toward Objective Environment Quality? Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society |
| title | What Is Affecting the Residents’ Subjective Perception toward Objective Environment Quality? |
| title_full | What Is Affecting the Residents’ Subjective Perception toward Objective Environment Quality? |
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