The Connotation and Extension of Agricultural Water Resources Security

作     者：LIU Bu-chun MEI Xu-rong LI Yu-zhong YANG You-lu 

作者机构：Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing 100081 P.R China Graduate School Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing 100081 P.R.China Managing Bureau of Irrigation Region in Wulate Hetao Inner Mongolia Bayannaoer 015000 P.R.China 

出 版 物：《Agricultural Sciences in China》 (中国农业科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2007年第6卷第1期

页      面：11-16页

学科分类：082802[工学-农业水土工程] 08[工学] 0828[工学-农业工程] 09[农学] 0815[工学-水利工程] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 

基　　金：Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China MOST: 2004DIB3J095 

主　　题：security water resources water environment agriculture 

摘      要：The objective of this study is to define agricultural water resources security and its connotation and extension. The definitions of water security, water resources security, and water environment security were summarized, and their relationship was differentiated and analyzed. Based on these, the elements of the conception of agricultural water resources security were hashed and the conception was defined. Agricultural water resources security is the provision of water resource that ensures protection of agriculture against threat, hazards, destruction, and loss. Moreover, the connotation and extension of agricultural water resources security were ascertained. In detail, the connotation of the definition has natural attributes, socioeconomic attributes, and cultural attributes. The extensions of agricultural water resources security include both broad and narrow ones, as well as, food security, agroenvironmental security, agroeconomic security, rural society security, etc. The definition will serve as the frame of reference for developing the researches, limiting the frame of the theory, and founding a appraising system for agricultural water resources security.