Changing community relations in southeast China: the role of Guanxi in rural environmental governance

Liu, Pingyang; Ravenscroft, Neil; Shi-peng, SU

doi:10.1007/s10460-019-10013-8

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“…However, the influence of guanxi networks on rural environmental governance has not attracted much attention [ 13 , 29 , 30 ]. Unlike relationship networks in Western cultures, guanxi networks in China are not official organizational ones, even though they play a crucial role in rural governance, such as by organizing environmental movements and promoting their success [ 23 ].…”

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“…In the field of rural environmental governance, studies find that difficulties in implementing rural environmental policies can be attributed to rural guanxi networks, and that these are also closely related to rural social inequities [ 12 ]. The traditional guanxi is a very important factor in driving rural environmental improvement in China [ 13 ].…”

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“…Guanxi networks are embedded in every aspect of rural society [ 9 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]. As a localized society in nature, rural China’s development and governance mechanisms have been profoundly shaped by guanxi networks [ 16 , 17 , 18 ].…”

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“…As a localized society in nature, rural China’s development and governance mechanisms have been profoundly shaped by guanxi networks [ 16 , 17 , 18 ]. In the context of rapid urbanization and dramatic rural transformation in China, traditional mechanisms are disintegrating, while market mechanisms have not yet taken shape; therefore, guanxi networks still play an important role [ 13 , 19 ]. Specifically, the influence of guanxi networks on the governance of public rural affairs is highly likely to trigger new social inequalities, thereby further affecting governance efficiency and even social stability.…”

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The Sharing of Costs and Benefits of Rural Environmental Pollution Governance in China: A Qualitative Analysis through Guanxi Networks Perspective

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Concern has been expressed in many parts of the world that community relations in rural areas are breaking down, making issues such as rural environmental degradation harder to resolve without external regulation. Guanxi is a specific Chinese idiom for characterizing social networks, as a broad term to represent existing relations among people, which can be loosely translated as ‘‘relationship’’. Based on a case study of an underdeveloped mountainous area of Southern China, this paper examined the problem from the perspective of guanxi, and explored the impacts of internal group differentiation catalyzed by pig farming pollution and the subsequent influences on the distribution of costs and benefits of different shareholders. It was found that the guanxi in the village were changed from blood relationship centered to economic interest centered. This disparity exerts a significant influence on the distribution of costs and benefits of pollution control and exacerbates environmental inequalities. This means that pig farmers dominated the narrative of pig farming pollution, while the ordinary villagers chose to suffer without protesting, which hinders the advancement of pollution control, and pig farmers took the benefits of weak pollution control and managed to transfer the external cost to others, while others became direct victims. The paper concludes that the rich become richer and the poor become poorer in both economic and environmental perspectives. It is strongly suggested that guanxi should be integrated into the consideration and decision-making process of rural environmental governance in order to guarantee the efficiency and efficacy of its implementation.

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“…Another determinant of HZW valuation considered in this study is the impact of the community network. It has been recognized as an informal institutional arrangement and discussed that "Guanxi" (interpersonal linkages) is an important characteristic of Chinese society, especially in rural communities (Du et al., 2020; Wei & Zhang, 2011). Producer valuation of biofortified crop planting likely also depends on community network.…”

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Contract farming, community effect, and farmer valuation of biofortified crop varieties in China: The case of high‐zinc wheat

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Biofortification is a feasible and cost‐efficient approach to reduce human micronutrient deficiency, but few studies have investigated its economic value from the perspective of producers. We propose an actual output‐based payment card (AOPC) method to elicit producer valuation of biofortified high‐zinc wheat in North China Plain and assess the impacts of contract farming and community network on their valuation. Unlike financial payments, AOPC uses actual output as the payment vehicle. The results show that Chinese wheat producers' valuation of the biofortified variety is featured by a dispersed and bimodal distribution. We find that contract farming positively affects farmer valuation, highlighting the role of institutional arrangement in biofortified crop planting. We also document the existence of community effects, which leads to similar valuation among farmers better connected through the shared community network. Further analysis reveals that contract farming and community network effects on producer valuation are heterogeneous between elderly and younger producers and producers with and without young children. Our findings shed new light on producer valuation of biofortified crop planting in developing countries and provide implications for advancing the process of crop biofortification to reduce global micronutrient malnutrition.

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Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China

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2023

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Stimulating counterurbanization has long been understood as a potential approach to revitalising rural areas. While well‐established in many countries, in China, it is taking a particular time‐limited form and characteristic dominated by issues of domicile and property rights. Rather than being characterised by long‐term life choices, counterurbanization in China is predominantly a shorter‐term leisure and tourism activity in which urbanites ‘curate’, for a limited period, a gentrified country lifestyle in accessible near‐urban villages. These lifestyles are in some ways akin to second‐home tourism. However, rather than purchase property as an investment, this new movement rents and renovates property as a consumption good with which to welcome other urbanites to visit, to consume and affirm these newly gentrified spaces and leisure opportunities. Based on a case study of Cenbu Village near Shanghai, this paper argues that current approaches to counterurbanization in China have limited impact on the revitalisation of local communities. Rather, newcomers from the cities largely superimpose their needs on the village in a way both ephemeral and removed from local people and village life. This comes about less as a mark of distain on the part of the incomers, and more as a result of their exclusion from key village institutions such as collective ownership, rights of domicile and ability to contribute to local governance. The paper concludes by arguing that mechanisms should be developed to enhance the long‐term confidence of newcomers, to encourage them to engage with community governance as a means of shaping the community and contributing more effectively to endogenous village revitalisation.

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Changing community relations in southeast China: the role of Guanxi in rural environmental governance

Cited by 17 publications

References 54 publications

The Sharing of Costs and Benefits of Rural Environmental Pollution Governance in China: A Qualitative Analysis through Guanxi Networks Perspective

The Sharing of Costs and Benefits of Rural Environmental Pollution Governance in China: A Qualitative Analysis through Guanxi Networks Perspective

Contract farming, community effect, and farmer valuation of biofortified crop varieties in China: The case of high‐zinc wheat

Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China

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