Government Governance Capacity, Public Environmental Awareness, and Satisfaction with Environmental Governance

As a direct object of ecological environment perception, public satisfaction with ecological environment is an important indicator to judge the status of regional ecological environment. Based on this, this study collected data on public perceptions of environmental issues in seven Chinese cities. On the one hand, we analyzed public satisfaction with ecological environment in China, and on the other hand, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the influence paths of public perception of ecological environment and government ecological environment management on public satisfaction with ecological environment. The results of the study indicate that the Chinese public’s satisfaction with the ecological environment is currently low, and they still lack confidence in the future improvement of the ecological environment in China. The Chinese public believes that the biggest environmental problem in China is air pollution, and the degree of improvement of relevant government environmental policies still needs to be improved. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) show that public perceptions of ecological environment and governmental ecological environmental governance have a significant direct positive effect on ecological environment satisfaction; governmental ecological environmental governance and ecological environmental perceptions also have a mutual positive effect. Environmental governance is a long-term and complex dynamic process. In the future, research can be enriched by expanding the sample data and refining the study of factors influencing ecological environmental satisfaction.