The Technopolitics of China's South - North Water Transfer Project

Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics

Sarah Rogers, Zali Fung, Vanessa Lamb, Ruth Gamble, Brooke Wilmsen, Fengshi Wu, Xiao Han

2023-03-14

How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou

Nahui Zhen, Yue Zhao, Hong Jiang, Michael Webber, Mark Wang, Vanessa Lamb, Min Jiang

2022-04-01

Ecological agriculture (EA) is commonly regarded as a top-down agricultural reform plan in China. However, the policy process is m..

The fence 'didn't work': the mundane engagements and material practices of state-led development in China's Danjiangkou Reservoir

Vanessa Lamb, Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang

2022-03-16

Central China’s Danjiangkou Reservoir supplies clean water to major cities as part of the South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWT..

Inside-out: Chinese academic assessments of large-scale water infrastructure

Michael Webber, Xiao Han, Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang, Hong Jiang, Wenjing Zhang, Jon Barnett, Nahui Zhen

2021-09-04

Little is known in the international academic community about Chinese-language research on water management. To remedy this defici..

Incentive coordination for transboundary water pollution control: The case of the middle route of China's South-North water Transfer Project

Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber

2021-06-15

The transboundary water pollution control is often complex and challenging due to the multiple jurisdictions or countries involved..

The Drivers of Employees' Active Innovative Behaviour in Chinese High-Tech Enterprises

Chuanhao Fan, Mingyue Hu, Ziheng Shangguan, Chunlan Ye, Shuting Yan, Mark Yaolin Wang

2021-06-01

High-performance work systems are being increasingly used in organisational management. However, such system development over time..

Making a water market intermediary: the China Water Exchange

Min Jiang, Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Wenjing Zhang, Gang Liu

2021-04-13

Market intermediaries play a crucial role in stitching together necessary actors for effective systems of exchange. However, there..

Alternative water supply solutions: China's South-to-North-water-diversion in Jinan

Yang Liu, Mark Wang, Michael Webber, Chengting Zhou, Wenjing Zhang

2020-12-15

Inter-basin water transfers are intended to have a positive impact on the development of a region, but are always accompanied by h..

Producing a Chinese hydrosocial territory: A river of clean water flows north from Danjiangkou

Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang

2020-11-01

Hydrosocial territories are produced not just through concrete water infrastructure, but through flows of people, water, money, an..

Risk Assessment of China's Water-Saving Contract Projects

Qian Li, Ziheng Shangguan, Mark Yaolin Wang, Dengcai Yan, Ruizhi Zhai, Chuanhao Wen

2020-10-01

In order to alleviate the problem of water shortage, the Ministry of Water Resources of China proposed a Water-Saving Contract (WS..

Can interbasin water transfer affect water consumption and pollution? Lessons from China's South-North water transfer project

Jichuan Sheng, Weizong Tang, Michael Webber

2020-05-31

Interbasin water transfer has become a means by which countries around the world solve the problem of water shortage. Moreover, in..

Authoritarian neoliberalization of water governance: the case of China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber, Xiao Han

2020-05-05

China’s water governance not only involves highly technical interventions from the government but also reflects selected features ..

Assessing the components of, and factors influencing, paddy rice water footprint in China

Xuechun Li, Dan Chen, Xinchun Cao, Zhaohui Luo, Michael Webber

2020-02-28

Water footprint (WF) can help understanding of how to grow more food with less water. The aim of this paper is to distinguish the ..

An integrated assessment of China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Sarah Rogers, Dan Chen, Hong Jiang, Ian Rutherfurd, Mark Wang, Michael Webber, Britt Crow-Miller, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Min Jiang, Chenchen Shi, Wenjing Zhang

2020-02-01

China’s South–NorthWater Transfer Project (SNWTP) is a vast and still expanding network of infrastructure and institutions that mo..

Between Project and Region: The Challenges of Managing Water in Shandong Province After the South-North Water Transfer Project

Dan Chen, Zhaohui Luo, Michael Webber, Sarah Rogers, Ian Rutherfurd, Mark Wang, Brian Finlayson, Min Jiang, Chenchen Shi, Wenjing Zhang

2020-02-01

This paper examines the challenges that a region of China is facing as it seeks to integrate a centrally planned, hierarchically d..

Beyond contradiction: The state and the market in contemporary Chinese water governance

M Jiang, M Webber, J Barnett, S Rogers, I Rutherfurd, M Wang, B Finlayson

2020-01-01

State/market interactions in water governance have long been interpreted in terms of the contradiction between water as a commons ..

Study on Social Integration Identification and Characteristics of Migrants from "Yangtze River to Huaihe River" Project: A Time-Driven Perspective

Ziheng Shangguan, Mark Yaolin Wang, Jianyuan Huang, Guoqing Shi, Liangliang Song, Zhonggen Sun

2020-01-01

The "Yangtze River to Huaihe River" project is another large-scale trans-basin water diversion project in China, following the Sou..

Water-energy nexus of the eastern route of China's south-to-north water transfer project

D Chen, D Zhang, Z Luo, M Webber, S Rogers

2019-10-01

This article investigates the energy intensity and related impacts of the Eastern Route of China's South-North Water Transfer Proj..

Governance rescaling and neoliberalization of China's water governance: The case of China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber

2019-08-05

This paper explores the relationship between rescaling and the neoliberalization of water governance in the South–North Water Tran..

China's ambitious ecological red lines

Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yang, Jon Barnett

2018-12-01

China has initiated a new environmental strategy for delimiting “ecological red lines (ERL)” to balance economic growth and ecolog..

Would you ever drink the water?

Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Mark Wang

2018-11-30

This chapter brings together the physical hydrology of the river catchment and the estuary, population growth and water demand, ma..

Measuring water use performance in the cities along China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Zhuang Miao, Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber, Tomas Balezentis, Yong Geng, Weihai Zhou

2018-09-01

Due to the construction and operation of China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP), it is necessary to conduct broader re..

Using incentives to coordinate responses to a system of payments for watershed services: The middle route of South-North Water Transfer Project, China

Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber

2018-08-01

In any scheme of payments for watershed services, the incentive size can directly affect the watershed services which are provided..

Spatial-temporal characteristics and determinants of land urbanization quality in China: Evidence from 285 prefecture-level cities

Wenjing Zhang, Mark Yaolin Wang

2018-04-01

This study contributes to research on the land–growth–environment nexus by putting emphasis on assessing the quality of land urban..

A SCIENTOMETRIC REVIEW OF WATER RESEARCH ON THE YANGTZE RIVER

D Chen, B Bi, ZH Luo, YW Yang, M Webber, B Finlayson

2018-01-01

With the traditional literature review, a bibliometric analysis of water research on the Yangtze River from 1996 to 2016 was prese..

Governmentality within China's South-North Water Transfer Project: tournaments, markets and water pollution

Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber, Xiao Han

2018-01-01

The control of water pollution in China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) is examined through the lens of promotion tou..

The politics of water: a review of hydropolitical frameworks and their application in China

S ROGERS, B Crow-Miller

2017-11-01

Academic literature on the politics of water encompasses hydrosocial relations at different scales, the role of technology in hydr..

The Techno-Politics of Big Infrastructure and the Chinese Water Machine

Britt Crow-Miller, Michael Webber, Sarah Rogers

2017-06-17

Despite widespread recognition of the problems caused by relying on engineering approaches to water management issues, since 2000 ..

Incentive-compatible payments for watershed services along the Eastern Route of China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber

2017-06-01

In transboundary rivers, upstream and downstream users have different interests, which affect their willingness to pay to protect ..

The South-North Water Transfer Project: remaking the geography of China

Michael Webber, Britt Crow-Miller, Sarah Rogers

2017-03-01

The South–North Water Transfer Project: remaking the geography of China. Regional Studies. This paper uses a technopolitical appro..