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

Grant number: DP170104138 | Funding period: 2017 - 2021

Completed

Abstract

This project aims to investigate the motives, processes, and socio-political and hydrological consequences of the South-North Water Transfer (SNWT) in China, the world’s largest inter-basin water network. It connects four major river basins, six provinces, three megacities and over 700 million people. This project will analyse the SNWT's governance regime; its effects on local and regional flows of water, money, people, pollutants, production and political authority; and the interactions between these systemic and local changes. This project expects to produce knowledge about the politics of vast technologies, and the management of inter-basin water schemes in Australia and globally.

Related publications (13)

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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..

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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..

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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..

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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

2020-01-01

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

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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..

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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

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China's ambitious ecological red lines

Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yang, Jon Barnett

2018-12-01

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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

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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

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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

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

Jichuan Sheng, Michael Webber, Xiao Han

2018-01-01

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

Sarah Rogers, Britt Crow-Miller

2017-11-01

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

Britt Crow-Miller, Michael Webber, Sarah Rogers

2017-06-17