Understanding internal driven factors of household intention to upgrade waste treatment system a case study of small scale cow farming in le chi commune gia lam ha noi

Understanding internal driven factors of household intention to upgrade waste treatment system: a case study of small-scale cow farming in Le Chi Commune, Gia Lam, Ha Noi Nguyen Thi Huong Giang* Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, Vietna,m National University of Agriculture * Corresponding author: giangnguyenln@gmail.com, Mobile No.: (84)915243136 Abstract Livestock waste management at household level is one of the biggest challenges for environmental managers in Vietnam for several years Understanding internal factors, which driven waste management behavior of household is extremely important to obtain successful waste management campaign The study was conducted in a peri-commune of Ha Noi, Le Chi Commune in order provide useful information for understanding better farmers waste treatment intention Through applying behavioral approach, study had interviewed 85 households to obtain necessary information for correlation models The results pointed out, there was no evidence of relationship between household intention and their current farming scale as well as their own perception on environmental performance of existing waste treatment systems However, the intension highly correlated to production plan and cow barn expansion ((r=.490, p=.001 and r=.675, p