Seasonal Land Fallowing Policy in Response to Groundwater Overdraft in the North China Plain

期刊： WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT, 2021; 14 (2)

The Seasonal Land Fallowing Policy (SLFP), designed to mitigate serious groundwater overdraft in the North China Plain, was introduced in Hebei Provin......

The Decline of Canal Irrigation in China: Causes, Impacts and Implications

期刊： WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT, 2021; 14 (2)

Irrigation is key for agricultural production and public affairs in China. Canal irrigation has been the dominant form of irrigation in China for over......

Adaptation to Quantitative Regulation of Agricultural Water Resources: Mosaic Cropping Pattern and Rotational Irrigation in China

期刊： WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT, 2021; 14 (2)

Quantitative regulation of agricultural water resources (QRW) is an effective means of reducing water demand and sustaining water development. Few stu......

Institutional Bricolage in Irrigation Governance in Rural Northwest China: Diversity, Legitimacy, and Persistence

期刊： WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT, 2021; 14 (2)

The emergence and development of diverse institutions is an important yet understudied subject in community-based irrigation governance. Drawing on em......

Bureaucratising Co-production: Institutional Adaptation of Irrigation Associations in Taiwan

期刊： WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT, 2021; 14 (2)

In 2020, Taiwan's 17 irrigation associations were bureaucratised to become management offices of the Irrigation Agency under the government's Council ......

Irrigation Management in East Asia: Institutions, Socio-Economic Transformation and Adaptations

期刊： WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT, 2021; 14 (2)

Irrigation management encapsulates human capacity for building and sustaining collective cooperation, which is directed at the allocation and utilisat......