Assessing Water Rights in China

Dr. Wang is a Professor of the School of Public Policy and Management, and the vice president of China Institute for Rural Studies, Tsinghua University. His main research fields include contemporary China studies and public policy, Institutional analysis and commons governance, water resources management. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. and Master in management science and Bachelor in hydraulic engineering from Tsinghua University. As a visiting scholar 2009–10 with Prof. Elinor Ostrom at the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, he is one of the leading scholars to follow up Bloomington School’s tradition studying the commons in China. He was an assistant director of Water Administration Bureau in Yellow River Conservancy Commission for one year, during this period he investigated water management conditions of eight riparian provinces down the Yellow River. Dr. Wang provides consultation for many international and domestic institutes, such as WWF,WRI, AusAID, JICA, CCICED, MWR-China, NDRC-China. He has published ten books and more than one hundred articles in academic journals.

• Introduction.- Hierarchical Structure of Water Governance.- Hierarchical Structure of Water Rights.- Economics Theory of Water Rights Structure.- Water Rights Structure in Ancient China and its Economic Explanation: Empirical Study of the Yellow River Basin.- Water Rights Structure of the Yellow River Basin and Its Economic Explanation: Since the Founding of New China.- Water Rights and Water Market of Contemporary China: Case Study.- Conclusions and Prospects.