Assessing Water Rights in China

• Main Author: Wang, Yahua (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Water Resources Development and Management,
• Subjects: Sustainable development.; Environmental management.; Hydrology.; Water-supply.; Natural resources.; Sustainable Development.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Water Industry/Water Technologies.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

This book presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China's water rights structure, one which takes into account pioneering theories on natural resources and environmental institutional economics. It highlights the basic theory of water rights, with a view to helping Chinese p...

Table of Contents:

• 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.