Government, market and households in the ecological relocation process: a sociological analysis of ecological relocation in S banner

摘要

S “”“ ”“” Our fieldwork at S Banner in Inner Mongolia reveals that the implementation of the ecological migration policy is a social process involving joint participation of multiple social agents including the central government, local governments, market elites, and farmers and herders. Behind these complex interactions is a network of power and interest constituted by government power, market power and the local people. Local governments function as a node joining different linkages in top-down ecological governance. Their dual role as “agent-managers of political power” and “profit-seeking managers of political power” leads to great uncertainty in the realization of environmental protection goals.