- Map demographic and industrial patterns and urbanisation; land use pattern and agricultural production methods
- Contextualise overall driving forces/processes and development patterns into regional and local conditions
- Identify actor categories and field structures, with the main focus on water and agricultural related fields, including production, policy-making, and management
- Conduct a survey covering different actor groups.
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Considerable efforts have been given to preparing for and conducting the survey among farmers in the study area north of Yuqiao reservoir. The first phase was designing the questionnaire and formulating questions, and translating the questionnaire into Chinese; the second phase was to contact with local village leaders and get assistance in gathering respondents (545 in the 11 villages); during the third phase the survey was conducted with assistance of four graduate students of Nankai University, Tianjin; and lastly the students also entered the data into SPSS. Some preliminary results from the survey were used in a meeting with representatives of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Tianjin Municipality.
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- Analyse the role of knowledge and learning processes and how this creates particular practices
- Analyse management procedures at different administrative levels and how they are interacting. Identify bottlenecks and contradictions that might function as obstacles for an efficient water resource policy, and consider how they can be solved
- Consider the legitimacy of possible polices that can contribute to improve the water quality and facilitate a sustainable and harmonious development – paying attention to the role of trust, distributive factors, and fairness and justice.
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