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1 Kosec, K.; Mo, C. H.; Schmidt, E.; Song, J.. 2021. Perceptions of relative deprivation and women’s empowerment. World Development, 138:105218. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105218]
Women's empowerment ; Attitudes ; Gender equality ; Women's participation ; Work force ; Economic situation ; Decision making ; Household income ; Communities / Papua New Guinea
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050136)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X20303454/pdfft?md5=eaf4139801e984e9cc294ff57525de70&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X20303454-main.pdf
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How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making in their community and household? We conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in approximately 1000 households in Papua New Guinea. Employing an established survey treatment to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their relative economic wellbeing, we find that increased feelings of relative deprivation make both men and women significantly more likely to support girls’ schooling and women’s paid employment, suggesting that relative economic insecurity can actually prompt support for women’s economic participation. However, increased feelings of relative deprivation may trigger greater intra-household tension. While increased perceptions of relative deprivation cause women to want more household decision-making authority, men’s attitudes toward women’s proper roles in decision-making are unchanged. In other words, increased support for women’s economic participation among men appears to stem mainly from a desire to raise household income, and not to alter the general role of women in society. The results underscore the multifaceted nature of gender attitudes, and how support for women’s economic participation may rise without simultaneous increases in women’s agency in decision-making.
2 Shen, J.; Zhao, Y.; Song, J.. 2022. Analysis of the regional differences in agricultural water poverty in China: based on a new agricultural water poverty index. Agricultural Water Management, 270:107745. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107745]
Agricultural water use ; Poverty ; Water scarcity ; Water stress ; Water resources ; Water availability ; Water governance ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural development ; Indicators / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051250)
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China's agricultural water resource utilization contradiction is prominent, and there are obvious differences in the distribution and utilization of water resources among regions. The theory of agricultural water poverty is of great significance to promote the efficient utilization of agricultural water resources and alleviate the contradiction of agricultural water use. However, the definition of the existing agricultural water poverty theory is quite controversial, and the mainstream agricultural water poverty index (AWPI) for measuring agricultural water poverty has disadvantages such as complex index selection and lack of unified weights. In this regard, this research takes the lead in providing a more complete definition of agricultural water poverty with reference to the definition of water poverty. In terms of method, the research refers to the Social Water Stress/Scarcity Index (SWSI) framework and proposes a new agricultural water poverty index from the two aspects of agricultural water scarcity and agricultural development capability. Based on this index, the regional differences in agricultural water poverty in China are analyzed. The main findings of the study: The agricultural water poverty index proposed in this study has rich connotations, is easy to compare objectively between regions and is applicable in the field of agriculture. The regional differences in agricultural water poverty in China are large, the number of areas with serious agricultural water poverty problems is large, and such problems last for a long time. The distribution of agricultural water poverty in China has spatial autocorrelation rather than a random distribution. China's relative agricultural water poverty index fluctuates around high values, the gap in agricultural water poverty between regions has not narrowed, and the contradiction in relative agricultural water poverty is prominent. The occurrence paths of agricultural water poverty in different regions are different, and the situation in different regions should be identified based on the scarcity of agricultural water resources and the development capability of agricultural production. Finally, this study expects to improve agricultural water poverty theory to effectively alleviate the problem of agricultural water poverty in different regions and promote balanced regional development.
3 Xu, H.; Yang, R.; Song, J.. 2023. Water rights reform and water-saving irrigation: evidence from China. Water Science and Technology, 88(11):2779–2792. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2023.385]
Water rights ; Reforms ; Water conservation ; Drip irrigation ; Trickle irrigation ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural water use ; Water productivity ; Water extraction ; Grain crops ; Cash crops ; Water scarcity ; Water resources ; Land area ; Cultivated land ; Precipitation / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052441)
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As a market-based water resource management, the water rights reform (WRR) will allocate water rights to water users and allow water users to trade water rights, which can realize the reallocation across water users. In this context, the adoption of water-saving irrigation (WSI) is an important technical form to adapt to the reform. Based on this, this paper studies the impacts of the WRR on WSI using the difference-in-differences (DID) strategy. The results show that the WRR could increase the land area for WSI by an average of 13.63%. The WRR could promote the expansion of high-efficiency irrigation mainly because the WRR could promote the expansion of spray and drip irrigation areas, and micro-irrigation land areas, which are high-efficiency water-saving irrigation technologies. In addition, the WRR also could improve agricultural production by increasing agricultural water productivity and planting area (including the sown area of grain crops and cash crops), but the WRR does not reduce agricultural water extraction. Therefore, the WRR could increase agricultural production without increasing agricultural water extraction.
4 Lee, W. - J.; Song, J.. 2024. Innovative strategy for enhancing nature-based solutions during climate technology transfer process. International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 16:1-17. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/18479790241229822]
Nature-based solutions ; Climate change ; Technology transfer ; Barriers ; Innovation ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Developing countries ; Agroforestry ; Ecosystems ; Stakeholders ; Policies ; Value chains ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052541)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/18479790241229822?download=true
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Recently, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have increasingly been regarded as a new opportunity to maximize the synergies between nature, society, and the economy. In addition, especially for policymakers and practitioners engaged in climate technology transfer activities from developed to developing countries, this concept is promoted as a cost-effective, agile, and innovative way of tackling various climate challenges to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). Thus, in the present work, to enhance NbS as an innovative implement during the climate technology transfer, we first analyze previous NbS cases during the technical assistance activities for some SDGs accomplished by the United Nations Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), such as coastal risk protection (to maximize ecosystems, Type 1), agroforestry (to restore ecosystems, Type 2) and green urban design (to create ecosystems, Type 3). Then, through in-depth interviews with NbS stakeholders, we identify dominant barriers to implementing each NbS Type in terms of innovation element: technology, market, and regulation. Finally, based on our staged innovation model considering the two-sided networks, we propose novel strategy for enhancing NbS by overcoming each barrier during the three stages of the climate technology transfer process: NbS technology assessment in the first eco-maximizing stage, blended finances for market creation in the second eco-restoring stage, and regulation incentivization in the third eco-creating stage.
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