From principles to localized implementation: villagers' experiences of IWRM in the Shiyang River basin, Northwest China
Understanding perceptions of resource users and influencing factors that affect these perceptions has significant value in evaluating the success or failure of IWRM (integrated water resource management) reforms. This article explores villagers' experiences of China's recent powerful enforcement of IWRM and the locally perceived impacts through three in-depth case studies. Results show that neither villagers' perspectives nor the implementation processes and outcomes are monolithic. Political trust plays a key role in shaping villagers' perspectives and responses towards IWRM, which is constantly shaped and reshaped by understanding, experiences and negotiation among different stakeholders in the embedded physical, socio-economic and political environment.
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2014
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Authors: | Yu, Haiyan ; Edmunds, Mike ; Lora-Wainwright, Anna ; Thomas, Dave |
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International Journal of Water Resources Development. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0790-0627. - Vol. 30.2014, 3, p. 588-604
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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