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Authors Information
SequenceTypeName TitleFirst NameLast NameDepartmentInstitute / Affiliation
1 Author Dr. Dan Luo Institute of ethnology Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences
Abstract Information
TrackID
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IUAES23_ABS_H2515
Abstract Theme
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Cross Cultural Adaptation and Social Development
Abstract Title
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The Way of Harmony: Irrigation Order and Ethnic Relations in World Heritage rice terraces,Southwest China
Short Abstract
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The proper governance of agriculture water is crucial for meeting global food security and achieving Sustainable Development Goals, especially when considering small-scale farmers in the Global South. This research builds upon a new lens of environmental justice to explain one successful approach to the governance of water commons.Calls for a wider understanding of plurality and multidimensionality of justice and the roles they play in justice practices situated in local value systems in China and beyond.
Long Abstract
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As the world cultural landscape heritage and the important agricultural heritage in the world, Honghe Hani rice terraces is the product of multi-ethnic groups to get rid of ecological constraints and maintain reproduction based on joint labor. Hani rice terraces can continuously eliminate various social disturbances and ensure the harmonious juxtaposition of culture, biodiversity and ethnic groups, which is not only the result of the co-evolution of man and nature, but also benefits from the concentrated, balanced and sustainable mechanism of fine irrigation reclamation. The terraces based on vertical reclamation of mountainous land, irrigation system takes fertility transport, temperature control and tail-water treatment as three core ecological initiatives. Flowing water and continuous culture constitute the keynote of Hani rice terraces irrigation society. The large irrigation water resources from top to bottom have connected the rice farming ethnic groups in Ailao Mountain into an"ethnic-ecological"community with a shared future, and the non-exclusive water resource sharing and co-management mechanism has enabled the multi-ethnic groups to interweave and coexist while maintaining the differences between them and others at the same time.The flowing and continuous characteristics of terraces irrigation system can not only contribute to the local ecological wisdom and humanistic knowledge system, but also provide narrative resources for the national discourse of modern ecological civilization construction, and offer lively local cultural interpretation cases of"ethnic-ecological"community withshared future.Practice has proved that interdependent actors in places and communities that share the same basic resources often achieve successful and moderate governance of shared resources through special institutional arrangements.It is one of the core elements of long-term stability within social structure,which is one of the basic points for multi-ethnic people to solve the problem of public resource allocation and ethnic relations in symbiotic space.

Abstract Keywords
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Environmental justice;Irrigation Order; Ethnic relations