Abstract
A number of new rural management models have emerged to solve the problems of economic backwardness, insufficient resource utilization, and technical shortages in rural areas in the context of poverty alleviation to the rural revitalization strategy in China. However, the influence of new rural management model under all countermeasures for rural sustainable development with a comprehensive perspective is lacking. Therefore, exploring whether the new rural management model meets the requirements of sustainable development is an urgent issue. From the theory of system metabolism and emergy accounting method, this study classified the government funds for poverty alleviation measures as import resources, and analyzed the metabolic structure, efficiency, and the rural development factors of Chehe Village before and after poverty alleviation measures are carried out (the year of 2012 and 2019) to verify whether the new model was sustainable. According to the results of this study, the new management model of Chehe Village declined the rural system sustainability with the emergy sustainability index decreasing from 1.96 in 2012 to 0.32 in 2019. With the development of economy, the system metabolic efficiency of Chehe Village promoted and the metabolic structure became more reasonable manifesting in the decline of emergy use per unit GDP and the increase of emergy exchange rate. Moreover, production and livelihood had been highly valued in Chehe Village. In conclusion, it is feasible to add countermeasures of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization into the village system metabolism. The new management model of Chehe Village needs to change exogenous force into endogenous force to meet the requirements of rural sustainable development.
Highlights
Sustainability can be defined as a development process that minimizes consumption of natural resources and the resulting environmental impacts while simultaneously providing economic and quality of life benefits [1]
Poverty alleviation and rural revitalization strategies in China are conducive to address the problems of escaping poverty and realizing sustainable development, which are the biggest challenges in the global scale, especially rural ecosystem
China rural formed under the strategies can promote farmers’ income, but whether they will affect the ecological environment of the rural ecosystem and whether farmers’ wellbeing will be effectively improved remain to be determined
Summary
Sustainability can be defined as a development process that minimizes consumption of natural resources and the resulting environmental impacts while simultaneously providing economic and quality of life benefits [1]. Sustainable rural development is a noteworthy issue to enhance the economic, social, and ecological sustainability of developing countries in which poverty is a dominant phenomenon that adversely affects livelihood [2]. There are many goals in SDGs related to rural sustainable development, covering nature, society, economy, and human well-being, such as life on land, no poverty, zero hunger, quality education, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth, good health and wellbeing, etc., [3]. Rural development is a comprehensive issue involving rural management, industrial economic development, natural resource utilization, technological progress, and trade exchanges [4,5]. Rural development is an essential issue it is complex
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