A Study On Farmers’ Willingness To Participate In The Governance Of Rural Human Settlement Environment In Poverty-removal Areas

After the completion of the task of poverty alleviation,the focus of the work on agriculture,rural areas and farmers has shifted to the comprehensive implementation of the rural revitalization strategy,in which the improvement of rural living environment is one of the key contents of rural revitalization.The improvement of rural living environment in the areas out of poverty can accelerate the development of agricultural economy and industry,promote the increase of farmers’ income,and promote the realization of common prosperity.Farmers are not only the participants in the governance of rural human settlements but also the direct beneficiaries.Their participation attitude will affect the effectiveness of the governance of rural human settlements.Based on participatory governance theory,social cognition theory and social capital theory,this paper constructs a theoretical model of influencing factors of farmers’ willingness to participate in rural human settlement environment governance.Taking rural residents of Jingyu County,Jilin Province as investigation objects,this paper explores the current situation and existing problems of rural human settlement environment governance,and constructs a binary Logistic model.This paper makes an empirical analysis of the factors that affect farmers’ willingness to participate in the governance of rural human settlements environment and puts forward some suggestions on improving farmers’ willingness to participate in the governance of rural human settlements environment.The conclusion is as follows: Descriptive statistical analysis shows that farmers in Jingyu County do not have a high degree of satisfaction with the current situation of human settlement environment.Most of them think it is very necessary for rural human settlement environment governance,and most of them are willing to participate in it.Among the individual characteristics of farmers,there are differences in the willingness of farmers to participate in rural human settlement environment governance based on age,education level and annual family income.Age has a negative impact on the willingness to participate in rural human settlement environment governance,while education level and annual family income have a positive impact.Individual cognition has a significant positive effect on farmers’ willingness to participate in the governance of rural human settlement environment,but the cognition of farmers in Jingyu County is not deep enough.Among the five dimensions of social capital factors,social network and social norms have no significant influence on farmers’ willingness to participate in rural human settlements governance,while social trust,reciprocity and sharing have significant positive influence on farmers’ willingness to participate in rural human settlements governance.Finally,according to the empirical analysis results and the actual situation of Jingyu County,the following countermeasures and suggestions are put forward: first,strengthen the publicity to improve the awareness of environmental governance of Jingyu County farmers;Second,to enhance the level of trust of farmers in Jingyu County;Third,to enhance the level of reciprocity and sharing among farmers and encourage mutual cooperation among farmers;Fourth,pay attention to the individual characteristics of farmers and give classified policies;Fifth,to establish and improve the rural residential environment governance fund investment mechanism;Sixth,respect the will of farmers and give play to their main role in environmental governance;Seventh,to play the guiding role of village committees and other grassroots organisations;Eighth,to improve the legal and institutional system related to rural habitat management.