What Affects Rural Ecological Environment Governance Efficiency? Evidence from China

Min Qian, Zhenpeng Cheng, Zhengwen Wang and Dingyi Qi
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Min Qian: School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Zhenpeng Cheng: Department of Global Food Service, Woosuk University, Jeonju 55338, Korea
Zhengwen Wang: School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Dingyi Qi: The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT 06039, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: With rapid economic development, the protection of the ecological environment has become very important. The modernization of rural ecological governance is the basis and prerequisite for the sustainable economic and social development of vast rural areas of China in the current era. It is urgent to analyze the influencing factors and to improve China’s rural ecological environment governance efficiency for Rural Revitalization in the new era, and to promote the modernization of the national environmental governance system and governance capacity. This paper empirically examines the influencing factors on rural ecological environment governance efficiency in the whole country, and in the eastern, central and western regions separately, at the provincial level, using the Tobit regression model. The results show that, at the national scale, the level of rural economic development, the size of village committees and rural public participation all have positive roles in promoting the efficiency of rural ecological environment governance. Rural population agglomeration, financial support for agriculture. And environmental protection social organizations have negative roles, hindering the efficiency of rural ecological environment governance. From the perspective of the eastern, central, and western regions, the factors affecting the efficiency of rural ecological environment governance are different due to regional differences. According to the results of empirical analysis, it is proposed that the key issue in improving the efficiency of rural ecological environment governance in China is to promote differentiated regional coordinated governance mechanisms.

Keywords: rural ecological environment; governance efficiency; influence factors; Tobit regression model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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