Study On Farmers' Participatory Governance In Baiyangdian Watershed Non-point Source Pollution

Nearly thirty years, Baiyangdian watershed is drying up or polluted frequently. The condition of that draws the government and the public great attention. Although the government has been committed to the environmental management and ecological restoration of the Baiyangdian watershed, the effect is that after the repeated governance is the repeated pollution. One reason of the result is that there is no famer participation mechanism to fit the trait of rural environment pollution around Baiyangdian watershed in existing governance mechanism. Therefore, the paper from this starting point, tries to establish and perfect the safeguard mechanism of farmer participating in governing the Baiyangdian watershed pollution model, which is leaded by government and mainly carried out by farmer.First, the paper, from the data begins by field survey and literature search, generalizes the current situation, harm and characteristics of the pollution of Baiyangdian watershed. Secondly, the paper analyzes the responsibility and affect of the farmer in the pollution governance of Baiyangdian watershed. It pointes out the farmer is the main responsibility is the pollution governance. They should be fully participating in the process of environmental management. And the fully farmers' participation can guarantee the achievement of government decision-making target, guarantee the implementation of government decision-making successfully, and can guarantee the later period operation and maintenance of environmental governance project. Third, the paper investigates the status quo of farmer participation from three aspects of participation concept, participation behavior and organization involvement. It has analyzed the reasons of farmer, self-interest thinking that"governance is carried out by government, and the gains are enjoyed by me". And the paper also applies marginal analysis to the analysis that although we must pay for the process of management, we can also gain profits of economy, environment, tourism brand and social benefits, etc. So the process has internal dynamic of actively participation. Finally, the paper proposes to establish and improve the safeguard mechanism of farmer participating in governing the Baiyangdian watershed pollution model, which is leaded by government and mainly carried out by farmer.Innovations of the dissertation are as follows:the paper adopts empirical research combined with normative analysis. First, it uses methods of social research to investigate the farmers' participation of Baiyangdian watershed, and analyzes the correlation between the farmers' participation and the pollution of Baiyangdian watershed. Then it points out that farmer is the direct dischargers and pollution victims of the pollution of Baiyangdian watershed, is the direct beneficiaries of pollution abatement, and is the direct defenders of environmental engineering infrastructure. Therefore, farmer's participation can effectively improve the effect of current governance. Second, it applies marginal analysis to the analysis of the farmer participatory governance behavior. And indicates that when the farmer began to participate in the environmental protection, their total revenue declined at a certain stage because of paying for the total cost. So the government should take effective incentive measures to make the benefit of the farmer higher than the cost they have paid for, thus it will maintain its participation. Third, the paper proposes to establish and perfect the guarantee mechanism of farmer participatory governance the Baiyangdian watershed pollution model, which is leaded by government and mainly carried out by farmer, including farmer environment education and training system, information and incentive mechanism of farmer participation, the supervision mechanism and decision-making mechanism. The paper takes a great importance to improve current inefficient pollution abatement of Baiyangdian watershed, to repair and maintain ecological balance of Baiyangdian enduringly. But when proposing to establish and improve the safeguard mechanism of farmer participating in governing the Baiyangdian watershed pollution model, which is leaded by government and mainly carried out by farmer, the paper is mainly in view of determination on the nature. So it lacks of quantitative analysis of safeguard mechanism. It needs to be perfected.