The Red Flag Canal: a socio-ecological practice miracle from serendipity, through impossibility, to reality - PubMed (original) (raw)

The Red Flag Canal: a socio-ecological practice miracle from serendipity, through impossibility, to reality

Wei-Ning Xiang. Socioecol Pract Res. 2020.

Abstract

This showcase article presents a 50-year-old, 1500-km-long irrigation canal in China as an exemplary case of socio-ecological practice. With a focus on its genesis, the article is the first of a mini-series on one of the best kept secrets in the history of socio-ecological practice.

Keywords: China; Common-pool resource (CPR); Ecophronesis; Irrigated farmland; Irrigation canal; Irrigation system; Moral improvisation; Socio-ecological practice; The Red Flag Canal.

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A location map of the Red Flag Canal, China

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