Abstract: In order to improve the rural living environment, realize rural revitalization and promote social organizations to participate in rural environmental governance. This study taked Herun social work service center’s participation in the environmental governance of Qinjian village in Nanjing city as an example, using embeddedness theory and field research methods to study the practice model of multi-dimensional social organizations embedded in rural environmental governance. The practical dilemma of social organizations participation in rural environmental governance was analyzed from system de-embedding, capacity de-embedding and cooperation de-embedding. The results showed that there were some problems in the participation of social organizations in rural environmental governance, including the lack of legal system located in the public and social organizations, the lag of social organizations professional ability in rural environmental governance, and the disconnection between social organizations and government, villagers and other social organizations. In view of these problems, from the perspective of external support, internal reconstruction and collaborative re-emplacement, it is proposed to enact laws concerning social organizations, improve the mechanism for public participation in environmental governance, improve the ability of social organizations to participate in rural environmental governance, strengthen the principal position of villagers, and strengthen the cooperative relationship between government, villagers and social organizations.

Key words: rural environmental governance, social organizations, embedding, de-embedding, re-embedding, Qinjian village