Agriculture and groundwater development in northern China: trends, institutional responses, and policy options

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	Agriculture and groundwater development in northern China: trends, institutional responses, and policy options
	Wang, Jinxia; Huang, Jikun(黄季焜)
刊名	WATER POLICY
	2007
卷号	9 期号:Suppl. 1 页码:61-74
关键词	development groundwater resources institutional responses northern China policy
ISSN号	1366-7017
通讯作者	Wang JX
学科主题	Water Resources
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
公开日期	2011-06-10
附注	Despite the growing importance of groundwater in Chinese agriculture, there is a lamentable lack of systematic information on the groundwater economy, especially on the agricultural consequences of groundwater depletion. This paper makes an attempt to overcome this limitation with information and analysis on trends in the expansion of agricultural groundwater use, resource management challenges, and institutional and policy responses in the particular context of northern China. The results show that groundwater problems and their agricultural consequences in northern China are heterogeneous across space and changing rapidly over time. While the problems are serious, they do not present everywhere with the same severity. As result, policies for their solution should be clearly discriminatory and carefully targeted. Even targeted policies will be difficult to implement, and government has had little success in controlling the extraction of groundwater or protecting its quality with the many formal laws and regulations now in existence. In contrast, farmers have been responsive to increasing shortages. Individual farmers (i.e. the private sector) have taken control of most well and pump assets, developed groundwater markets, changed cropping patterns and adopted water savings technologies. While market forces and economic incentives can change use, public initiatives for agricultural groundwater regulation to balance short term economic efficiency with long resource sustainability are urgently needed.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/3441]
专题	地理科学与资源研究所_专家文献库
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Jinxia,Huang, Jikun. Agriculture and groundwater development in northern China: trends, institutional responses, and policy options[J]. WATER POLICY,2007,9(Suppl. 1):61-74.
APA	Wang, Jinxia,&Huang, Jikun.(2007).Agriculture and groundwater development in northern China: trends, institutional responses, and policy options.WATER POLICY,9(Suppl. 1),61-74.
MLA	Wang, Jinxia,et al."Agriculture and groundwater development in northern China: trends, institutional responses, and policy options".WATER POLICY 9.Suppl. 1(2007):61-74.