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A study on the decision-making mechanism and promotion policy of urban residents’ domestic waste-classification behavior: evidence from Sichuan province

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The classification policy of urban domestic waste affects social welfare and sustainable development. Urban residents’ behaviors are crucial to the policy. This paper proposes a decision model of urban residents’ domestic waste-classification behaviors. Using the NetLogo simulation platform, a “policy-behavior” simulation model was built to explore the impacts of different policy tools on residents’ waste-classification behaviors. The results show that community support, perceived utility, government mobilization and environmental cognition are important factors explaining residents’ waste-classification behaviors. Informative, command-and-control, economic-incentive policy tools can significantly promote residents’ waste classification. Moreover, the incentive effect of informative, command-and-control policy tools, increases as the intensity of policy intervention increases. However, the incentive effect of economic-incentive policy tools increases and then decreases.

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This research was funded by Southwest Petroleum University: 2018XZK008; The National Social Science Fund of China, 20XJY006.

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    Qianyu Dong, Rui Yan, Runli Xiong, Weikai Xie, Min Pang & Lin Liang

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Dong, Q., Yan, R., Xiong, R. et al. A study on the decision-making mechanism and promotion policy of urban residents’ domestic waste-classification behavior: evidence from Sichuan province. Environ Dev Sustain (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-04740-0

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