Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 834, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155476
Keywords
Three Gorges Reservoir; The Yangtze River; Socio-scientific issues; Riparian health indicators; Riparian stress factors; Environmental attitude
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Funding
- Chongqing Municipality Key Forestry Research Project [2021-9]
- Chongqing Municipality Housing and Urban Construction Committee [Chengkezi 2019-1-4-2]
- Forestry Extension Project of China Central Finance [Yulinketui 2020-2]
- Science Foundation of College of Life Sciences of Southwest University [20212005406201]
- Ningxia Key Research and Development Project [2020BFG03006]
- Ningxia Natural Science Foundation Project [2020AAC03107]
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Although environmental illiteracy is a threat to landscapes worldwide, it is often ignored. This study examined the effects of environmental literacy on clean production elements within the China Three Gorges Dam Reservoir area. The results showed that the general public lacked understanding of environmental literacy, which greatly influenced plant cover elements in tributary zones. Local residents and public employees had a significant impact on clean production elements, with correlations ranging from -0.69 to 0.96 and -0.58 to 0.83, respectively.
Although environmental illiteracy threatens the functioning of landscapes throughout the world, it is frequently ignored. The traditional wisdom assumes that suspicions will evaporate when the public and government authorities are provided with new information. Despite significant efforts to enhance riparian corridor output, limited data are available on the effect of environmental literacy metrics (ELMs) on clean production elements (CPEs) across various streams (e.g., main rivers and tributaries) within impoundments. This study examined such effects within the China Three Gorges Dam Reservoir area (TGDRA) by collecting 336 transects that assessed the breadth of effects on 58,000 km(2) in 2019. The network visualization revealed 7234 papers published over the last 121 years, each of which focused on themes such as plant cover, regeneration, exotics, erosion, habitat, and stressors. The bar graph showed that the general public lacked understanding of environmental literacy (e.g., knowledge, attitudes, and behavior), which influenced plant cover elements most in tributary zones but had little direct effect on regeneration. Locals' environmental literacy had the greatest impact on CPEs, with Pearson correlation coefficients ranging from-0.69 < r < 0.96 in the main river zones. Moreover, public employees' environmental literacy had a stronger correlation with CPEs (-0.58 < r < 0.83) within the main river regions. Farming systems, exposed soil, dominant grass regeneration, and instream structures, including pollution, were among the most notable CPEs within the TGDRA. According to hierarchical approaches, CPEs and ELMs change substantially across stream types. CPEs and ELMs vary significantly around main rivers and tributaries, requiring efforts to raise the public understanding of the worldwide impacts of stream health on humans.
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