Evolution characteristics and institutional logics of livestock and poultry farming pollution control policies in China: Policy text analysis based on the three-dimensional framework of “tool-objective-efficacy”
This study aimed to clarify the evolutionary characteristics and institutional logics of China's policies for livestock and poultry farming pollution control, and optimize policy design to enhance governance efficiency. A total of national level 102 policies on livestock and poultry farming pollution control issued from 2001 to 2024 were evaluated by constructing a three-dimensional analytical framework of “tool-objective-efficacy”. The content analysis method and the PMC index model were comprehensively used. The study finds that: The policy objective of livestock and poultry farming pollution control is to transform and upgrade from “terminal prevention and control” to “ecological cycle”, but the transformation of the ecological value objective is not sufficient. The policy tools for livestock and poultry farming pollution control have long relied on command-and-control instruments, and the coordination between economic incentives and social voluntary tools is weak. The policy effectiveness of livestock and poultry pollution control is constrained by the incomplete coverage of the main body, insufficient sectoral synergy, and inadequate long-term planning, resulting in the lack of institutional articulation between policies, forming the shortcomings of governance effectiveness. Based on this, this study propose to optimize the policy toolbox, strengthen the market-based incentive mechanism, and improve the long-term governance of “planting and breeding cycle” to break the inertia of the governance model in the governance of livestock and poultry farming pollution, and to provide decision-making reference for the optimization of the governance path.
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