Rural Non-point Source Pollution Risk And Order Reconstruction

The author thinks that the non-point source pollution is a projection from social disorder to environmental problems among the social transformation. With the perspective of risk society theory, non-point source pollution is a risk of modernity. Especially in rural areas, with the improvement of living conditions and the change of production, the original rural social structure is impacted.This impact is not only acted as the change of villager's life, but also as the increasing environment load brought by the change, which is especially remarkable is the conflict between the growing trash in country and the disorde of garbage disposal.This paper is divided into seven chapters. The author summaries and reviews the research of non-point source pollution in first chapter, thinkes non-point source pollution research in the field of environmental sociology is a relatively new subject, the previous research more focuses on natural scientific fields which emphasis on using technology way to control non-point pollution. The author thikes if we employ the case study method and understand the non-point source pollution problem from the viewpoint of sociology, we can study the research in a deeplier way.In the second chapter, the author introducts the relevant situation of the investigation site with the order from the county to township to village. In the third chapter, the author mainly describes the bottom environment characteristics of the investigation site, states the characteristics and the change in local production and life from two aspects, and further expounds the relationship between the rural non-point source pollution and the characteristics and the change. In the fourth chapter, the author mainly discusses existing non-point source pollution problems in the cross area which can be divided into three major aspects: county non-point source pollution, village garbage problem and the pollution diffusion. County non-point source pollution risk lies in soil degradation, the loss of soil and water, soil and water pollution and natural disasters. The village garbage problem is the discharge and disorder of waste garbage. The spread of non-point source pollution sources in the countryside is a performance of increasing risk. In the fifth chapter, the author discussed whether the farmers have environmental protection consciousness at first. the author assumes that the farmers view environment as the background of life, and they have weakly risk perception under the powerful survival logic. The author further explores the path dependence of non-point source pollution problem, and indicates that the non-point pollution problem can't get better control and solve because of the vacancy of the non-point source pollution control system.The author presents the local environmental protection practice in the sixth chapter. The author thinkes although there is a split between practice and concept, but this can get accommodation. Non-point source pollution is a kind of expression modern social disorder, non-point source pollution management is a kind of effort to reconstruct the order.The reconstruction of order depends on the strengthening of public risk perception and forming social consensus. Social education is an effective way to accommodate the concept and practice. Social education contributes to strengthen the public environmental protection consciousness.The author summarize and discuss the full text in the seventh chapter. In this part, the author further discusses how to research the non-point pollution based on the theory of risk and order, and tries to put forward some ideas about how to deal with non-point pollution.The main innovation point of this paper is:at first the object of study is fairly new,the second the author view the problem in a new angle,next the author pays attention to emic understanding in the analysis. Non-point source pollution has become a reserch object in China since the1990s, the research about it in social science field started even later.The author is innovative to choose a relatively new problems as a social problem to discuss.Most relevant observers put particular emphasis on external attribution and less consider the attitudes how the settler treat their own environment. The author avoid those shortage by using the emic and etic approaches methodology of anthropology to perspect the non-point source pollution problems from the settler's position.The author argues that the formation and diffusion of rural non-point source pollution is closely related to the rural social transformation, viewes the rural non-point source pollution problems as a aspect of the adjustment of rural social orde, emphasizes to control he rural non-point source pollution through the reconstruction of rural social order. The author insistes that people can change ideas and practis to achieve the non-point source pollution management by the social education.The author's point of view is a certain new idea.This paper's shortcoming lies in the discussion about theory is not deep enough.Though the author involves the performance and reason of rural non-point pollution, discusses that under the risk of non-point pollution, several related reasons such as individual risk perception, limited means and the system vacancy to deal with non-point pollution would aggravate the risk of non-point source pollution, but the author failed to use the perspective of country-market-society to deepen the system agent of non-point source pollution in the full text.After all, there are disadvantages of theoretical analysis in this thesis.