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

Wang, Raymond Yu1; Lam, Wai-Fung2; Wang, Jinxia3

2021-06-01

Water Alternatives-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Water Politics and Development   影响因子和分区

1965-0175

Irrigation management encapsulates human capacity for building and sustaining collective cooperation, which is directed at the allocation and utilisation of water as a common-pool resource. Although rooted in rural communities, irrigation management is also subject to macro socio-economic and ecological settings that mediate micro human-nature relations. In East Asia, the long-established tradition of irrigation management has been confronting a series of new challenges such as an ageing and decreasing rural populations, increasing regional and sectoral competition for water, the growing influence of neoliberalism, and shifting public policies that reshape state-society-market interactions. This Special Issue aims at revisiting irrigation management in East Asia against the backdrop of rapid socio-economic transformation. In this introductory article, we set the scene by illustrating why the understanding of irrigation management should be situated in a broader socio-economic and political context. We then briefly summarise the key findings of the collection of papers in this Special Issue. It is shown that external challenges do not necessarily lead to the failure of irrigation management. New features of irrigation practices (for example, institutional reinvention and restructuring) may emerge as public, communal and private actors who co-manage irrigation systems respond and adapt to societal and environmental changes.

Irrigation institutions socio-economic transformation adaptation East Asia

SCI ; SSCI

英语

第一 ; 通讯

National Natural Science Foundation of China[41801132,71874007] ; Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education of China[17YJCZH183] ; Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province[2018A030313964]

Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Water Resources

Environmental Studies ; Water Resources

WOS:000659682100001

WATER ALTERNATIVES ASSOC

Web of Science

1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Ctr Social Sci, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
2.Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
3.Peking Univ, China Ctr Agr Policy, Sch Adv Agr Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China

Wang, Raymond Yu,Lam, Wai-Fung,Wang, Jinxia. Irrigation Management in East Asia: Institutions, Socio-Economic Transformation and Adaptations[J]. Water Alternatives-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Water Politics and Development,2021,14(2).

Wang, Raymond Yu,Lam, Wai-Fung,&Wang, Jinxia.(2021).Irrigation Management in East Asia: Institutions, Socio-Economic Transformation and Adaptations.Water Alternatives-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Water Politics and Development,14(2).

Wang, Raymond Yu,et al."Irrigation Management in East Asia: Institutions, Socio-Economic Transformation and Adaptations".Water Alternatives-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Water Politics and Development 14.2(2021).