Philosophical Reflections on Chinese Water Resource Management

Abstract:

Water is crucial to production, and is the foundation of ecology. Building a reasonable management system for water resources is necessary and important, and it’s an inevitable requirement of our strategy of sustainable development. In the management of behavior, philosophical base determines the behavior trends. With the development of socio-economic development, the strategy of water resources management has changed a lot in China. In this paper, the problems caused by improper water resources management modes and by overly governing by people are discussed and a series of water management reform proposals are developed on the bases of the ancient Chinese management philosophy. The paper then gets the conclusion that the water resource management reform is actually following the management path from “governing by people” to “governing by nature”.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 580-583)
• Pages: 1856-1859
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.580-583.1856
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Ying Fei Liu*, Ben Qing Ruan, Cong Cong Xie
• Keywords: Chinese Water Resource Management, Governing by Nature, Lao Tzu's Philosophy, Philosophical Reflections

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