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1 Molden, D.; Sakthivadivel, R.; Samad, M. 2001. Accounting for changes in water use and the need for institutional adaptation. In Abernethy, C. L. (Ed.). Intersectoral management of river basins. Proceedings of an International Workshop on Integrated Water Management in Water-Stressed River Basins in Developing Countries: Strategies for Poverty Alleviation and Agricultural Growth, Loskop Dam, South Africa, 16-21 October 2000. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Feldafing, Germany: German Foundation for International Development (DSE). pp.73-87.
Water use ; River basin development ; Institution building ; Water demand ; Conflict ; Water scarcity ; Irrigated farming ; Water balance ; Recycling ; Water accounting ; Water allocation / Nepal / China / East Rapti River / Hebei / Fuyang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 ABE Record No: H029114)
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2 Wang, J. 2002. Water institutional arrangement and reform: the Fuyang River Basin in China. Paper presented at the Ministerial Round Table Dialogue: all material, Bangkok, Thailand, 23 May 2002. 34p.
River basins ; Institutional development ; Water scarcity ; Water table ; Water management ; Water supply ; Water demand ; Cost recovery ; Local government ; Public sector ; Financing ; Investment ; Surface water ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water rates ; Water law / China / Fuyang River Basin / Hebei
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: CD Col Record No: H031578)
3 Wang, J.; Huang, J. 2002. Innovation of property right and groundwater irrigation management: case study of tubewell ownership in Hebei, China. Paper presented at the Ministerial Round Table Dialogue: all material, Bangkok, Thailand, 23 May 2002. 21p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Tube wells ; Investment ; Private ownership ; Communal irrigation systems ; Economic aspects ; Models / China / Hebei
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: CD Col Record No: H031579)
4 Shah, Tushaar. 2003. Framing the rules of the game: preparing for the first irrigation season in the Sardar Sarovar Project. IWMI Tata Comment, 17/2003. 11p.
Irrigation programs ; Development projects ; Water delivery ; Water user associations ; Canals ; Pumps ; Groundwater irrigation ; Villages ; Water rates / India / China / Sadar Sarovar Project / Narmada / Hebei / Hanan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.8 G635 SHA Record No: H031811)
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Research highlight based on a fieldwork by IWMI-Tata Research Team in forty villages of First Phase Command of Sardar Sarovar Project
5 Wang, J.; Huang, J. 2003. Innovation in property rights and groundwater irrigation management: A case study of tube-well ownership in Hebei, China. In Bruns, B.; Bandaragoda, D. J. (Eds.), Governance for integrated water resources management in a river-basin context: Proceedings of a regional seminar, Bangkok, May, 2002. Colombo, Sri Lanka: IWMI. pp.87-108.
Tube wells ; Groundwater Irrigation ; Water scarcity ; Income ; Economic aspects ; Models ; Cropping systems / China / Hebei
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G570 BRU Record No: H032946)
6 McVicar, T. R.; Zhang, G.; Bradford, A. S.; Wang, H.; Dawes, W. R.; Zhang, L.; Li, L. 2002. Monitoring regional water use efficiency indicators on the North China Plain. In McVicar, T. R.; Rui, L.; Walker, J.; Fitzpatrick, R. W.; Changming, L. (Eds.), Regional water and soil assessment for managing sustainable agriculture in China and Australia. Canberra, Australia: ACIAR. pp.231-257.
Water use efficiency ; Monitoring ; Indicators ; Water conservation ; Maize ; Crop production ; Irrigated farming ; Precipitation ; Information systems / China / Hebei
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.1 G592 MCV Record No: H033004)
7 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2003. Development of effective water-management institutions, final report, vol.IV: country study reports and action plans. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vi, 185p.
Water resource management ; Irrigation management ; Institutional development ; River basins ; Groundwater irrigation ; Tube wells ; Case studies / China / Indonesia / Nepal / Philippines / Sri Lanka / Thailand / Fuyang River Basin / Hebei / West Sumatra / Inderagiri River Basin / East Rapti Basin / Upper Pampanga River Basin / Deduru Oya / Bang Pakong River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G570 INT Record No: H035405)
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Regional study implemented by IWMI with financial support from the Asian Development Bank (RETA 5812)
8 Mi, J.; Huang, J.; Wang, J.; Mukherji, Aditi. 2008. Participants in groundwater markets: who are sellers? Journal of Natural Resources, 23(6):1-12.
Water market ; Groundwater ; Groundwater irrigation ; Tube wells ; Collective ownership ; Private ownership ; Households ; Villages ; Rural areas ; Water table ; Drought ; Surveys ; Farmers ; Income ; Economic analysis ; Econometric models / China / Hebei / Henan / Xian county / Ci county / Yanjin county
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042256)
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Few studies have paid attention to the groundwater market in rural China though it has developed rapidly in recent decades. The main objectives of this paper are to describe the main characteristics of participants of rural groundwater market and identify the determinants of selling water. Data used in this research comes from 150 households in two provinces in northern China. Based on our field survey, we find that the farmers with higher wealth, more advantaged in agricultural activity, and higher social position are more likely to be the sellers. Transaction costs also have impacts on participants in the groundwater market.
9 Deng, C.; Wang, H.; Gong, S.; Zhang. J.; Yang, B.; Zhao, Z. 2020. Effects of urbanization on food-energy-water systems in mega-urban regions: a case study of the Bohai MUR, China. Environmental Research Letters, 15(4):044014. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6fbb]
Urbanization ; Food systems ; Energy consumption ; Water systems ; Nexus ; Urban areas ; Water resources ; Land use ; Economic development ; Indicators ; Population growth ; Case studies / China / Bohai Mega-Urban Region / Beijing / Hebei / Tianjin / Liaoning / Shandong
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049630)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6fbb/pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049630.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049630.pdf
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The security of food-energy-water (FEW) systems is an issue of global concern, especially in mega-urban regions (MURs) with high-density populations, industries and carbon emissions. To better understand the hidden links between urbanization and FEW systems, the pressure on FEW systems was quantified in a typical rapidly urbanizing region—the Bohai MUR. The correlations between urbanization indicators and the pressure on FEW systems were analyzed and the mechanism of the impact of urbanization on FEW systems was further investigated. The results showed that approximately 23% of cropland was lost, 61% of which was lost via conversion to construction land and urban areas expanded by 132.2% in the Bohai MUR during 1980–2015. The pressure on FEW systems showed an upward trend, with the stress index of the pressure on FEW systems (FEW_SI) ranging from 80.49% to 134.82%. The dominant pressure consisting of that has converted from water system pressure to energy system pressure since 2004. The FEW_SI in the Bohai MUR was enhanced with cropland loss and increases in urbanization indicators. Additionally, land use, populations, incomes, policies and innovation are the main ways that urbanization affects FEW systems in MURs. This study enhances our understanding of the variation in pressure on FEW systems in MURs and the effects of urbanization on FEW systems, which will help stakeholders to enhance the resilience of FEW systems and promote sustainable regional development.
10 Huang, Q.; Yin, D.; He, C.; Yan, J.; Liu, Z.; Meng. S.; Ren, Q.; Zhao, R.; Inostroza, L. 2020. Linking ecosystem services and subjective well-being in rapidly urbanizing watersheds: insights from a multilevel linear model. Ecosystem Services, 43:101106. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101106]
Ecosystem services ; Assessment ; Watersheds ; Socioeconomic environment ; Urbanization ; Rural communities ; Sustainability ; Regional planning ; Hygroscopicity ; Carbon sequestration ; Ecological factors ; Linear models / China / Hebei / Baiyangdian Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049673)
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In rapidly urbanizing watersheds with conflicts between socioeconomic development and ecological protection, understanding the relationship between ecosystem services (ESs) and human well-being is important for regional sustainability. However, quantifying their relationship over multiple scales remains challenging. We selected a typical rapidly urbanizing watershed, the Baiyangdian watershed in China, and used surveys and a multilevel linear model to analyze the influence of regional ESs and individual characteristics on subjective well-being (SWB). Our results showed that the multilevel linear model could effectively capture the influences of regional ESs on the residents’ SWB. For the watershed, 95.9% of the total variance in the residents’ SWB was attributed to variation between individuals, and the remaining 4.1% was attributed to variation between regions. The SWB of rural residents was more likely to be affected by regional ESs than urban residents. In the Baiyangdian watershed, which has a water supply shortage, the SWB of low-income and elderly residents in the rural areas was more sensitive to water retention services, and the association was significant. The results suggest that in rapidly urbanizing watersheds, government should pay attention to maintaining and improving key regulating services to effectively maintain and promote the SWB of rural residents and regional sustainability.
11 Li, K.; Zhang, H.; Li, X.; Wang, C.; Zhang, J.; Jiang, R.; Feng, G.; Liu, X.; Zuo, Y.; Yuan, H.; Zhang, C.; Gai, J.; Tian, J. 2021. Field management practices drive ecosystem multifunctionality in a smallholder-dominated agricultural system. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 313:107389. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107389]
Farming systems ; Smallholders ; Ecosystem services ; Agroecosystems ; Management techniques ; Farmland ; Soil microorganisms ; Agrochemicals ; Fertilizers ; Households ; Farm income ; Farmers ; Socioeconomic aspects / China / Hebei / Quzhou
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050334)
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Agroecosystems provide multiple goods and services that are important for human welfare. Despite the importance of field management practices for agroecosystem service delivery, the links of socioeconomic factors, management practices and ecosystem multifunctionality have rarely been explicitly evaluated in agroecosystems. Here we used a county-scale database with 100 farmer households and their farmlands, and analyzed the relative importance of management practices, soil abiotic environment and soil biota on multifunctionality under three distinct (‘smallholder’s viewpoint’, ‘sustainable soils’ and ‘equal weight’) scenarios. Furthermore, we also analyzed the effect of smallholders’ socioeconomic factors on management practices. Our results found that smallholders’ high inputs of fertilizers and agrochemicals were associated with their high agricultural income and less farmland area, but total land area had a positive effect on straw incorporation. Total soil biota index was positively related to multifunctionality, however, management practices (fertilizer input, agrochemical input, organic fertilizer amount and straw incorporation) had stronger effect on multifunctionality than that of soil biota or the abiotic environment. Their strength varied with distinct scenarios. Our work suggests that increasing organic materials (organic fertilizers and crop residues) and decreasing agrochemicals are beneficial for maintaining or increasing ecosystem multifunctionality in smallholder-dominated agroecosystems. Moreover, improving management practices of smallholders needs to take into account the effects of their socioeconomic factors.
12 Xu, Z.; Yao, L. 2022. Opening the black box of water-energy-food nexus system in China: prospects for sustainable consumption and security. Environmental Science and Policy, 127:66-76. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.017]
Water resources ; Energy consumption ; Food security ; Nexus ; Energy generation ; Water extraction ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Sustainable development ; Economic development ; Trends / China / Beijing / Tianjin / Hebei
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050784)
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Water-energy-food (WEF) nexus system enables to examine the implications for sustainability. Inevitably, shocks from socioeconomic subsystems would impact the stability and reliability of the WEF nexus system. This paper aims to identify the reasons for changes in water withdrawal, energy consumption, and crop consumption, and uncover differentiated effects from both the national and provincial perspectives, and finally offer the main strategies in China that balance socioeconomic development and resource-saving from the consumption perspective. Empirical results in China from 2011 to 2017 show that (1) the reduction of per capita energy consumption leads to a decrease in water withdrawal, while increased population and water withdrawal intensity in energy sectors have adverse effects on diminishing water withdrawal. (2) The decrease in energy consumption mainly results from improved energy use efficiency for the whole period. (3) Reduction in national crop consumption is mainly caused by the decline in energy consumption per person over the years, which implies a positive effect of food-energy nexus effect on the decrease in crop consumption. (4) Spatially-temporarily contribution rates of drivers offer implications to the implementation of resource-saving and sustainability in the future. Directions and magnitudes of driving forces are different from the sub-nation perspective, hence, finally takes Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region as an example, we analyze clearly the relative planning and reports and propose several pathways to accelerate the sustainable development in the BTH region.
13 Mu, L.; Mou, M.; Tang, H. 2022. Does the water resource ‘fee to tax’ policy alleviate water poverty? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Water Supply, 22(12):8465-8482. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2022.382]
Water resources ; Water use ; Poverty ; Taxes ; Policies ; Models ; Water management ; Economic aspects ; Economic development ; Industrial water use ; Indicators / China / Hebei
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051592)
https://iwaponline.com/ws/article-pdf/22/12/8465/1157320/ws022128465.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051592.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051592.pdf
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Levying a water resources tax policy which is called ‘fee to tax’ is a regulation formulated by China to restrain and alleviate water poverty. To test the effect of the water resources ‘fee to tax’, this research employs a multistage dynamic difference-in-differences (DID) model to explore whether the implementation of the policy can help alleviate water poverty based on panel data from 2009 to 2019. The results indicate the water poverty in western China is significantly more serious than in other regions and the implementation of the water resources tax policy significantly alleviates water poverty (the sign of the policy is positive and significant at the 1% level) in China. Additionally, the mechanism effects suggest that the policy can effectively restrain water poverty by reducing groundwater exploitation and optimizing the water utilization structure. In terms of spatial heterogeneity, the effect of the water resources tax policy on alleviating water poverty is stronger in central and eastern regions than in western regions. The conclusions of this study may, to some degree, serve as a basis to scientifically guide the implementation of China's water resources ‘fee to tax’ policy and, thus, effectively improve the level of water resources management.
14 Wu, Z.; Tian, G.; Han, X.; Li, J.; Xia, Q. 2023. Can the water resources tax policy effectively stimulate the water saving behavior of social water users? A DSGE model embedded in water resources tax. PLOS ONE, 18(3):e0281920. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281920]
Water resources ; Policies ; Water conservation ; Water users ; Models ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Water use ; Taxes ; Sustainable development ; Water demand ; Water supply ; Social change ; Households ; Parameters / China / Hebei
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051802)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281920&type=printable
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051802.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051802.pdf
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Whether the implementation of the water resources tax policy can stimulate the water-saving behavior of social water users is one of the important criteria for evaluating the implementation effect of the tax reform policy. Taking Hebei Province, the first tax reform pilot in China, as an example. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE) with embedded water resources tax is constructed to simulate the persistent impact of water resources tax on water-saving objectives. The research shows that: (1) Water resources tax can effectively achieve the goal of water-saving and improve the utilization efficiency of water resources. (2) Levying water resources tax helps to improve the water-saving awareness of enterprises and residents. It can also encourage enterprises to optimize production structures. (3) Rational and efficient use of special water resources protection funds is the basis for ensuring the effective implementation of water resources tax. It can also improve the recycling capacity of water resources. The results show that the government should speed up formulating a reasonable water resources tax rate and accelerate the construction of water resources tax protection measures. To ensure the relatively steady state of water resources utilization and protection, and achieve the dual goals of sustainable economic development and sustainable use of water resources. The research results of this paper reveal the internal logic of the comprehensive impact of water resources tax on the economy and society and provide an important basis for the national promotion of tax reform policy.
15 Wang, J.; Zhou, H.; Tso, G. K. F.; Hsun, C. P.; Tua, C.; Zheng, T. 2023. Integrated safety assessment of water-energy-food systems based on improved substance element extensions. Journal of Water and Climate Change, jwc2023343. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.343]
Water resources ; Energy consumption ; Energy security ; Food security ; Food systems ; Evaluation ; Indicators / China / Beijing / Tianjin / Hebei
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052369)
https://iwaponline.com/jwcc/article-pdf/doi/10.2166/wcc.2023.343/1337783/jwc2023343.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052369.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052369.pdf
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To explore the integrated security of water-energy-food system, 26 indicators were selected from six aspects: water security, energy security, food security, water-energy system security, water-energy system security, energy-food system security; the frequency analysis method was used to construct the integrated security evaluation index system for water-energy-food systems. Then, the matter-element expansion model was refined and used to assess the overall security of the water, energy and food system in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The evaluation metrics used to assess the overall security of water, energy, and food system were examined and researched from two dimensions: time and space. This model adequately represents the overall security of the water-energy-food system, as demonstrated by empirical studies. Comparisons are made between the evaluation results of the modified model and those of the conventional matter-element inflationary model, confirming the feasibility and validity of the modified model. Finally, the main factors affecting the security of the water-energy-food system in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region are discussed using the index weight and obstacle degree model. Relevant suggestions are also provided to enhance the security of the water-energy-food system.
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