Abstract: This paper analyzes the causes and characteristics of the rural environmental mass disturbances, and finds that there are some problems such as lack of effective communication among government, enterprises and villagers in the process, the diversification of contradictions and the difficulty of handling. Therefore, this article considers that social work as the third party can participate in such events to play a bridge of communication, coordination of contradictions and link resources and so on. Based on social work perspective, it is imperative to construct a collaborative governance mechanism among government, enterprises, villagers, social work, legal aid agencies, environmental organizations, media, clarify the responsibilities and operational mechanisms of the various agents, while establishing risk assessment, conflict resolution, cooperation path in post-supervision phase, to play the different advantages of various agents in different stages, realizing resource sharing to achieve the goal of working together to resolve the environmental mass disturbances.

Key words: rural environmental mass disturbance, social work, collaborative governance