Scientific Reports (Mar 2024)

A study of the impact of risk perception on the pro-environmental behaviour of herders in the Sanjiangyuan region

  • Zongli Zhang,
  • Lingshu Zhang,
  • Jina Cui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57336-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract This study aims to study the pro-environmental behaviour of herders in the Sanjiangyuan region, a significant ecological security barrier. This paper selected 212 herding households in the Sanjiangyuan area as research subjects by random sampling method. By establishing a multivariate ordered logistics model to study the impact of risk perception on herding households' pro-environmental behaviour and introducing capital endowment as a moderating variable to analyse the moderating effect of capital endowment on the relationship of herding households' risk perception—pro-environmental behaviour. The study results show that herders's risk perception significantly affects their pro-environmental behaviour, in which environmental risk perception, economic risk perception and disease risk perception positively affect their pro-environmental behaviour. Capital endowment has a moderating role in the relationship between risk perception and the pro-environmental behaviour of herding households. Accordingly, this paper proposes to strengthen publicity and education, encourage herders to join cooperatives, and improve the ability of risk perception and other countermeasures.