Water, technology, society and the environment: interpreting the technopolitics of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project

George C. S. Lin

Regional Studies, 2017, vol. 51, issue 3, 383-388

Abstract: Water, technology, society and the environment: interpreting the technopolitics of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project. Regional Studies. This paper engages with Michael Webber’s inspirational and provocative interpretation of the technopolitics of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP). The SNWTP was originally conceived out of a special view of human–environment relations so different from the logics of the demand–supply equilibrium. The project was promoted by the post-Mao regime as a means to cope with economic downturn. Its challenges to existing institutions should not be overstated out of its political proportion. Its detrimental environmental impacts are not surprising enough to justify alternatives. The SNWTP provides an interesting case with which to understand the sophisticated interrelationship between water infrastructure, technology, society and environment.

Date: 2017
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00343404.2016.1267339 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:regstd:v:51:y:2017:i:3:p:383-388

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/CRES20

DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1267339

Access Statistics for this article

Regional Studies is currently edited by Ivan Turok

More articles in Regional Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().