Author(s)

Xuanqi Liu, Yuhan Li, Xiujuan Wang^*

College of Public Administration, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China.

Rural environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, which has become an important problem to be solved urgently in our country under the background of the new era. Protecting the ecological environment is one of the important functions of the government, and protecting the rural water environment is the unshirkable responsibility of the local governments. As the main body of rural water pollution control, how to define and fulfill the local governments’ responsibilities is of great significance to the advancement of the overall governance work. This paper starts from the local governments, which are the important main body of rural environmental governance. By comparing the similarities and differences between the performance of government responsibilities under the traditional governance model and the collaborative governance model, clarifies the governance responsibilities of the local governments. And further explores the effective measures for the government to play the main role, fulfill the main responsibilities, and participate in the collaborative governance of rural water pollution.

Fulfillment of Government Responsibilities, Rural Water Pollution, Collaborative Governance

Liu, X. , Li, Y. and Wang, X. (2023) The Fulfillment of Government Responsibilities in the Collaborative Governance of Rural Water Pollution. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 13, 496-507. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2023.134040.