The Dilemma and Path of Rural Environmental Governance in China: From the Perspective of a Community with a Shared Future

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 13;20(2):1446. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021446.

Abstract

With the aim of achieving the goal of ecological livability in Chinese rural society, the issue of rural environmental governance has received great attention from the CCP and the government. However, due to local governments' model of development in exchange for economic interests and the "urban and rural binary" structure of environmental governance, rural environmental governance faces many dilemmas, such as lack of normative standards, lack of environmental governance subjects, and lack of judicial security. In order to improve the development of rural ecological civilization and realize ecologically friendly agriculture, this paper proposes a solution path for rural environmental governance from the perspective of the idea of the community with a shared future for humanity. Specifically, this solution path includes establishing the concepts of cooperation and governance of environmental protection, improving villagers' participation in environmental protection, balancing economic and environmental interests in rural environmental governance, and building a long-term mechanism for the rule of law in rural environmental governance.

Keywords: community with a shared future; cooperative governance; environmental legislation; rural environmental governance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Conservation of Natural Resources*
  • Environmental Policy*
  • Humans
  • Local Government
  • Rural Population

Grants and funding

This paper is the first-stage result of a Shandong Province Major Theoretical and Practical Issues Research Special Project from 2018 (“Confucian legal culture and judicial rationality research”).