劳动力流动抑制了农户参与村域环境治理吗？——基于湖北省的调查数据

Does Labor Mobility Inhibit Farmers’ Participation in Village Environmental Governance?An Analysis Based on Survey Data from Hubei Province

本文从劳动力流动的视角出发,基于农户行为的微观层面,探讨了农村劳动力外流对农户村域环境治理参与行为的影响,在此基础上进一步分析了劳动力流动对农户村域环境治理参与行为产生影响的传导机制,并利用湖北省628户农户的微观调查数据进行实证检验。结果表明:当前农村居民村域环境治理的参与度总体不高。家庭主要劳动力在村时间越长,则农户参与村域环境治理的概率越高,即劳动力外流抑制了农户参与村域环境治理。此外,从劳动力流动对农户村域环境治理参与行为产生影响的传导机制分析发现,家庭主要劳动力在村时间越长,则农户对农村环境保护重要性的认知越高,对农村环境改善给自己和家人带来的环境效益感知越强,且家庭劳动力对提升在村影响力的迫切性也越强,这进一步会促使农户积极参与村域环境治理。

From the perspective of labor mobility,this article discusses the impact of rural labor outflow on rural households’participation on environmental governance based on a micro-level analysis of farmers’behavior.On this basis,it further explores the transmission mechanism of labor mobility on rural households’participation in environmental governance,using micro survey data collected from 628 households in Hubei Province for an empirical test.The results show that the current participation level of rural residents is generally not high.The longer the families’main labor force stays in the village,the higher the probability of farmers’participation in village’s environmental governance.That means the outflow of labor force inhibits the farmers’participation in village environmental governance.From the analysis of the transmission mechanism,the analysis finds that the longer the families’main labor force stays in the village,the higher the farmers’awareness of the importance of rural environmental protection,the stronger their perception of the environmental benefits brought by the improvement of rural environment to themselves and their families.The more urgent it is to enhance the influence of family labor in the village,the more it will encourage farmers to actively participate in environmental governance in the village.