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DOI	10.1007/s11707-019-0795-3
	Toward a socio-political approach to water management: successes and limitations of IWRM programs in rural northwestern China
	Mao, KuoRay 1; Zhang, Qian 2; Xue, Yongji 3; Weeks, Nefratiri 1
通讯作者	Mao, KuoRay
来源期刊	FRONTIERS OF EARTH SCIENCE
ISSN	2095-0195
EISSN	2095-0209
出版年	2020
卷号	14 期号:2 页码:268-285
英文摘要	In rural north-western China, the tension between economic growth and ecological crises demonstrates the limitations of dominant top-down approaches to water management. In the 1990s, the Chinese government adopted the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to combat the degradation of water and ecological systems throughout its rural regions. While the approach has had some success at reducing desertification, water shortage, and ecological deterioration, there are important limitations and obstacles that continue to impede optimum outcomes in water management. As the current IWRM approach is instituted through a top-down centralized bureaucratic structure, it often fails to address the socio-political context in which water management is embedded and therefore lacks a complete treatment of how power is embedded in the bureaucracy and how it articulates through economic growth imperatives set by the Chinese state. The approach has relied on infrastructure heavy and technocratic solutions to govern water demand, which has worked to undermine the focus on integration and public participation. Finally, the historical process through which water management mechanisms have been instituted are fraught with bureaucratic fragmentation and processes of centralization that work against some of its primary goals such as reducing uncertainty and risk in water management systems. This article reveals the historical, social, political, and economic processes behind these shortcomings in water management in rural northwestern China by focusing on the limitations of a top-down approach that rely on infrastructure, technology, and quantification, and thereby advances a more holistic, socio-political perspective for water management that considers the state-society dynamics inherent in water governance in rural China.
英文关键词	integrated water resources management topdown implementation inland river basin water rights China
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA ; Peoples R China
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000522714100001
WOS关键词	POLITICAL-ECONOMY ; POLICY ; PARTICIPATION ; INFRASTRUCTURE ; SUSTAINABILITY ; GOVERNANCE
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Geology
来源机构	北京林业大学 ; Colorado State University
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/314565
作者单位	1.Colorado State Univ, Dept Sociol, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA; 2.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Sociol, Beijing 100001, Peoples R China; 3.Beijing Forestry Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mao, KuoRay,Zhang, Qian,Xue, Yongji,et al. Toward a socio-political approach to water management: successes and limitations of IWRM programs in rural northwestern China[J]. 北京林业大学, Colorado State University,2020,14(2):268-285.
APA	Mao, KuoRay,Zhang, Qian,Xue, Yongji,&Weeks, Nefratiri.(2020).Toward a socio-political approach to water management: successes and limitations of IWRM programs in rural northwestern China.FRONTIERS OF EARTH SCIENCE,14(2),268-285.
MLA	Mao, KuoRay,et al."Toward a socio-political approach to water management: successes and limitations of IWRM programs in rural northwestern China".FRONTIERS OF EARTH SCIENCE 14.2(2020):268-285.