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Baruch Boxer, an RFF visiting scholar, is comparing changing conceptual and technical approaches in water valuation, measurement, use, and control in the United States and China as part of a long-term study that explores the interplay of Western and Chinese technical and institutional approaches in 20th-century Chinese water management. In China, major efforts are currently underway to redefine the institutional and legal framework of the water economy in response to market incentives and opportunities associated with rapid economic development. In the United States, recent changes in criteria and methods for measuring, assessing, and valuing water have given more attention to preserving ecological integrity. In both countries, the changes represent significant departures from long-standing assumptions and practices and are helping the two nations cope with the growing challenges of sustainable water use. olrvqilmm
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Boxer has completed the first phase of his research comparing Chinese and U.S. concepts and strategies for sustainable water use. His paper, “China’s Water Problems in the Context of U.S.-China Relations,” was published in August 1998 in the Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Series. olrvqilmm
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A major China–United States cooperative program of water resources research and management was launched in an inaugural technical workshop held in April 1999. The workshop, sponsored by the offices of the U.S. vice-president and the Chinese premier and coordinated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, laid the groundwork for a cooperative program in water resources management in four major areas: agriculture and forestry, ecological requirements, domestic and industrial water quality issues, and flood and drought planning and mitigation. Boxer’s work focuses, in particular, on relations between technical and institutional dimensions of water management programs in both countries to better understand how social and historical-cultural factors are reflected in technical interventions and management choices. His invited paper for the workshop is titled “China’s Water Management Options: Issues and Alternatives”.olrvqilmm
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“China’s Water Management Options: Issues and Alternatives” olrvqilmm
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