文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Sustainable Forest Development in the Digital Era: The Impact of Internet Use on the Happiness of Forest Farmers' Families in Ecologically Fragile Ethnic Areas of China

作者：Zhao, Xin[1] Zhang, Ke[1] Zhao, Rong[1]

第一作者：Zhao, Xin

通信作者：Zhao, R[1]

机构：[1]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Forestry Policy & Informat, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China

年份：2024

卷号：15

期号：3

外文期刊名：FORESTS

收录：;EI(收录号：20241315828509);Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85188791551);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:001191585300001)】；

基金：This research was funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China (grantnumber 22BGL313) and The Central Public Research Institutes Fundamental Research Funds for the Project of Chinese Academy of Forestry (grant number CAFYBB2021QC002).

语种：英文

外文关键词：digital village; forest farmers; subjective class identity; happiness; CRITIC-TOPSIS model

摘要：In the policy arena of the rapid development of China's digital village, understanding how internet use enhances the happiness of forest farmers' families holds theoretical and practical significance for promoting the protection of the ecological environment and the sustainable development of forests. This study utilizes survey data from 2023 on forest farmers in ecologically fragile ethnic areas in China. Based on sustainability, a five-dimensional evaluation index system for the happiness of forest farmers' families has been constructed. First, the CRITIC-TOPSIS model is employed to calculate the happiness scores of forest farming households. Subsequently, the Tobit model and the mediation effect model are applied to examine and analyze the influencing factors and mechanisms of internet usage on the happiness of forest farmers' families. The study finds that, first, an increase of one unit in terms of internet use is associated with a 0.031-unit increase in the happiness of forest farmers' families, and that education, social perception, and policy perception all have a positive effect on the happiness of forest farmers' families. Second, the mechanism of action suggests that internet use significantly increases forest farmers' families' happiness through subjective class identity. Third, further heterogeneity analyses revealed that internet use contributed to the happiness of forest farmers' families in the male group, the low human capital group, and the group with an ecological forest ranger in the family. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of digital rural infrastructure and develop new models such as digital forestry; cultivate and introduce specialized digital talents in rural areas and enhance the digital literacy of forestry farmers; and assist forestry farmers in establishing class identity concepts and social values conducive to the sustainable development of forests and implement ecological values in production practices, thereby improving the happiness of forest farmers' families.