For centuries, traditional agricultural systems have contributed to food and livelihood security throughout the world. Recognizing the ecological legacy in the traditional agricultural systems may help us develop novel sustainable agriculture. We examine how rice–fish coculture (RF), which has been designated a “globally important agricultural heritage system,” has been maintained for over 1,200 y in south China.
Addressing China's Water Scarcity addresses the emerging water
crisis and the need for China to reform and strengthen its water
resource management framework. It covers key issues including
water governance, water rights, water pricing and affordability,
watershed ecological compensation, water pollution control, and
emergency prevention, and it identifies the measures needed to
In determining domestic water prices, policy makers often need to use information about the demand side rather than only relying on information about the supply side. Household surveys have frequently been employed to collect demand-side information. This paper presents a multiple bounded discrete choice household survey model. It discusses how the model can be utilized to collect and analyze information about the acceptability of different water prices by different types of households, as well as households
