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- Reflects pioneering theories on institutional environmental and economic resources
- Presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China’s water rights structure
- Highlights a systematic economic theory on water rights structure and describes its precise meaning
- Explores the possibility of introducing a dynamic market mechanism into the hierarchical structure and its use to make a case study of the water market in contemporary China
- Highlights China’s current water crisis as essentially a crisis of governance due to inadequate management cost spending on the part of the state
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China’s water rights structure, one which takes into account pioneering theories on natural resources and environmental institutional economics. It highlights the basic theory of water rights, with a view to helping Chinese policymakers acquire a deeper understanding of water rights and the need for a reform program in the long-term development of water-poor China. To do so, it draws on three main sources: Cheung SNS’s “Economic Explanation”, Douglas C. North’s “New Economic History” and Ray Huang’s “Macro History”.
The book makes two essential contributions: it elaborates the hierarchical water governance structure in China, which originated in the Qin Dynasty that unified the country 2000 years ago and has been employed without interruption ever since; further, it constructs a choice model for water governance structures and advances the logic of making structural choices with minimum transaction costs under constraint conditions, while also explaining the inherent nature of China’s choice for the hierarchical structure from the perspectives of management cost and cooperation cost. As such, the book enriches and builds on the theories of the “water governance” school represented by Karl Marx, Karl Wittfogel and Ray Huang, laying the foundation for the further study of water rights theory in contemporary China.
Keywords
- Water governance in China
- Water rights structure in ancient China
- Yellow river basin
- Water market of contemporary China
- Water crisis in China
- Water allocation scheme
- Surface water rights structure
- Utilization of the water resources
- Water management costs
- Water rights allocation
- water policy
- water industry and water technology
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Yahua Wang
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessing Water Rights in China
Authors: Yahua Wang
Series Title: Water Resources Development and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5083-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5082-4Published: 22 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5314-7Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5083-1Published: 14 September 2017
Series ISSN: 1614-810X
Series E-ISSN: 2198-316X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 242
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Hydrology/Water Resources, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Natural Resource and Energy Economics