贫困、环境退化与绿色减贫——一个华南村庄的社会工作实践案例研究

Poverty,Environmental Degradation and Green Poverty Reduction:A Case Study of Social Work Practice in A Village in South China

贫困与环境退化是全球面临的共同议题,相应地,减贫与环境保护也备受关注。本文基于一个华南村庄的案例,分析了农村贫困与环境退化的相互作用机制,并借助绿色社会工作的理论视角,探寻社会工作推进绿色减贫实践的策略。面对贫困,围绕自然资源和劳动力而形成的常规生计方式是农村环境压力的重要来源,持续的环境退化会加剧贫困或造成返贫。如果不加干预,贫困与环境退化的相互作用可能演变为恶性循环。这也表明,我们需要寻找绿色减贫的出路。社会工作推进绿色减贫的实践策略在于以合作生产的方式发展可持续生计,构建绿色消费网络促进城乡公平贸易,以及采取社区为本取向寻求微观层面与宏观层面的双向改变。

Poverty and environmental degradation are global issues.As such,poverty reduction and environmental protection have drawn a lot of attention.This paper,taking a village in South China for case study,aims to reveal the interaction between poverty and environmental degradation and explore strategies about promoting green poverty reduction on the basis of the theory of green social work.In the face of poverty,established livelihood relying on natural resources and labour has led to environmental degradation,which in turn put both livelihood and ecological environment at risk.The interaction between poverty and environmental degradation indicates the necessity of green poverty reduction.There are three main strategies that social workers can use:developing sustainable livelihood through cooperative production,adopting a community-based approach to bring about multilevel changes,and promoting urban-rural cooperation through fair trade.