How Do Information Resources Influence the Public Environmental Risk Perception? A National Survey in China

Abstract

As the Chinese economy has grown rapidly over the past years, environmental degradation has become increasingly more prominent. Concerns about environmental protection with industrial pollution and poor environmental quality have risen over the years in China. According to our survey, respondents consider environmental risk to be the issue of greatest concern in contemporary China; and environmental risk is one of the three most highlighted issues, preceded only by economic growth and education (Fig.