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- Title
STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING OF RICE FARMERS' PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
- Authors
CHARMCHIAN LANGERODI, M.; DINPANAH, R.
- Abstract
Rural areas are of high importance on account of vicinity to nature and the effects these places leave on or receive from the nature. Environmental protection, thus, does not realize without participation and contribution of the people who live in such places. The present study aimed at providing a structural equation modeling of rice farmers' participation in environmental protection. The rice farmers who live in the Iranian county of Sari comprised the statistical population of this research (N = 24502) out of which 290 were selected as statistical samples based on Cochran Formula. The needed data was collected via a questionnaire of which the validity had been already approved by the experts. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficient for the whole questionnaire was obtained at 0.937. The average age and work experience of the participants were 48.53 and 23.82 years, respectively. The social feature and information resources comprised and explained totally 27.1 percent of the variance of participation of the rice farmers in environmental protection.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL protection; FARMER surveys; RICE farmers; EFFECT of environment on human beings; RURAL geography; SUSTAINABILITY
- Publication
Applied Ecology & Environmental Research, 2017, Vol 15, Issue 3, p1765
- ISSN
1589-1623
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15666/aeer/1503_17651780