Exploring China's farmer-level water-saving mechanisms: Analysis of an experiment conducted in taocheng district, hebei province

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 547-563

  Chen, Sicheng ^a   Wang, Yahua ^a   Zhu, Tingju ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural water use; China; Water markets; Water pricing; Water saving

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; INTERNATIONAL LAW; WATER CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURAL WATER USE; CHINA; WATER - SAVINGS; WATER MARKET; WATER PRICING;

AGRICULTURE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN RIGHTS; POLICY MAKING; PRICING POLICY; RURAL AREA; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CHINA; HEBEI;

EID: 84899843993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6030547     Document Type: Article

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