分析COVID-19疫情对家庭固体废物管理的影响:使用PLS-SEM进行的经验研究
Pablo Ponce1,2, Nathalie Aguirre-Padilla3, María Orellana-Jimbo4
1Carrera de Economía and Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Loja, Loja, Ecuador.
Science progress
|November 9, 2023
概括
COVID-19大流行对厄瓜多尔的固体废物管理产生了负面影响. 然而,积极的环境态度,社会规范和技术创新改善了家庭的废物管理实践.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 废物管理 废物管理
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
背景情况:
- 由于经济和人口增长,全球固体废物污染正在增加,导致生态损害.
- COVID-19大流行改变了消费者行为,使得有效的固体废物管理 (SWM) 变得至关重要.
- 厄瓜多尔等发展中国家在SWM方面面临着独特的挑战,尤其是在全球卫生危机期间.
研究的目的:
- 调查COVID-19对厄瓜多尔家庭固体废物管理 (SWM) 的影响.
- 检查环境态度 (EATT),社会规范 (SN),环境知识 (EK) 和技术创新 (TI) 在疫情期间对SWM的影响.
主要方法:
- 通过在线问卷从426个厄瓜多尔家庭收集的数据.
- 部分最小平方结构方程模型 (PLS-SEM) 用于假设测试和模型验证.
- 分析的重点是COVID-19,EATT,SN,EK,TI和SWM之间的关系.
主要成果:
- COVID-19对固体废物管理 (SWM) 实践产生了负面影响.
- 环境态度 (EATT),社会规范 (SN) 和技术创新 (TI) 对SWM产生了积极的影响.
- 发现环境知识 (EK) 对SWM没有显著影响.
结论:
- 研究结果为在COVID-19大流行期间发展中国家的SWM提供了新的见解.
- 促进积极的环境态度,社会规范和技术创新的干预措施对于改善SWM至关重要.
- 未来的研究应该更深入地探索环境知识的作用.
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