Managing Water on China's Farms

Jinxia Wang is the Deputy Director and Professor at Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She is also a Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), CAS. Her research focuses on water management, institution and policy, climate change (impact evaluation and adaptation strategies), and rural environmental policy. She received her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics (2000) at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She has published more than 150 papers (more than 60 are in English) and four books. In 2009, she received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation in China. Qiuqiong Huang is an Associate Professor at University of Arkansas. Her research focuses on natural resource economics (with an emphasis on water and land) and development issues including education, migration and labor market outcomes. She received her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics (2006) at University of California, Davis. Her publications have appeared in Agricultural Water Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Food Policy, Journal of Productivity Analysis, and Water Resources Research. Jikun Huang is the Founder, Director and Professor at Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also a Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), CAS. He received his Ph.D. in economics from University of the Philippines at Los Banos in 1990. His research covers a wide range of issues on China's agricultural and rural development, including work on agricultural R&D policy, water resource economics, price and marketing, food consumption, poverty, trade policy, and climate change. He received the Outstanding Scientific Progress award from the Ministry of Agriculture four times, Award for China’s top ten outstanding youth scientists in 2002, Outstanding Achievement Award for Overseas Returning Chinese in 2003, Outstanding Contribution Award on Management Science in 2008, the UPLB Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008, and 2010 IRRI’s Outstanding Alumni Award. In 2013, he was elected member of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He has published more than 400 journal papers, of which more than 200 papers in the international journals, including Science and Nature. He is co-author of 18 books. Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with: agricultural policy, including the supply, demand, and trade in agricultural projects; the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and efficiency; and the economics of poverty and inequality, with an emphasis on rural education, health and nutrition. Rozelle's papers have been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, American Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Literature. He received his Ph.D. (1990) from Cornell University.

• Section I. Setting the StageChapter 1. Water Survey Data Chapter 2. Water Scarcity in Northern ChinaChapter 3. Irrigation, Agricultural Production and Rural IncomeChapter 4. Water Management Institution and PoliciesSection II. Groundwater ManagementChapter 5. Evolution, Determinants and Impacts of Tubewell Ownership/ManagementChapter 6. Development of Groundwater Markets in ChinaChapter 7. Impacts of Groundwater Markets on Agricultural Production in ChinaSection III. Surface Water ManagementChapter 8. WUAs and Contracts: Evolution and DeterminantsChapter 9. Determinants of Contractual FormChapter 10. Impacts of Surface Water Management ReformsChapter 11. Evaluation of WUAsSection IV. Future OptionsChapter 12. Irrigation Water Pricing PolicyChapter 13. Water Allocation through Water Rights InstitutionChapter 14. Adoption of Water Saving Technology

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