School of Public Administration, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai 264005, China.
School of Business, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 8;18(14):7311. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18147311.
Village rules and formal environmental regulations are of great significance for standardizing farmers' cleaner production behavior, promoting green transformation of agriculture and realizing sustainable development of agriculture. Based on the survey data of 946 farmers in five provinces of China, taking seed coating technology, soil testing and formulated fertilization technology, subsoiling tillage technology, green technology for pest and disease control and straw returning technology as examples, this article empirically analyzes the impact of village rules and formal environmental regulations on farmers' cleaner production behavior by using the multivariate probit model. When formal environmental regulations are relatively lacking or weak, village rules can be used as a useful supplement to formal environmental regulations to promote farmers' participation in cleaner production. Based on this, this article argues that the important reason for formal environmental regulations falling into relative system failure is that village rules have not been paid enough attention in promoting farmers' cleaner production behavior. In the future, we should not only continue to strengthen the role of formal environmental regulations in farmers' cleaner production, but also cultivate the informal institution represented by the village rules, and build the regulatory system of mutual support between informal institution and formal institution.
村规民约和正式环境法规对规范农民清洁生产行为、促进农业绿色转型、实现农业可持续发展具有重要意义。本文基于对中国五省 946 位农民的调查数据，以种子包衣技术、测土配方施肥技术、深耕深松技术、绿色病虫害防治技术和秸秆还田技术为例，运用多元概率比模型实证分析了村规民约和正式环境法规对农民清洁生产行为的影响。当正式环境法规相对缺乏或薄弱时，村规民约可以作为正式环境法规的有益补充，促进农民参与清洁生产。基于此，本文认为，正式环境法规陷入相对制度失效的重要原因在于，在促进农民清洁生产行为方面，村规民约没有得到足够重视。未来，不仅要继续强化正式环境法规在农民清洁生产中的作用，还要培育以村规民约为代表的非正式制度，构建非正式制度与正式制度相互支撑的规制体系。
