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ANALYSIS OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN GROUP HETEROGENEITY AND THE SELF‐GOVERNANCE PERFORMANCE OF SMALL‐SCALE WATER CONSERVANCY FACILITIES: BASED ON THE THRESHOLD MODEL OF THE NUMBER OF WATER USER HOUSEHOLDS †
Author(s) -
Luo Fang,
Tian Miao,
Sun Caihong
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
irrigation and drainage
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1531-0361
pISSN - 1531-0353
DOI - 10.1002/ird.2368
Subject(s) - corporate governance , stratified sampling , agriculture , business , scale (ratio) , water resources , agricultural economics , environmental resource management , environmental economics , water resource management , geography , economics , statistics , environmental science , finance , mathematics , ecology , cartography , archaeology , biology
Small‐scale water conservancy facilities are common‐pool resources, the self‐governance performance of which is key to reducing farming costs and determines whether farmers' demand for irrigation is met. The self‐governance performance of small‐scale water conservancy facilities is closely related to institutional arrangements, such as group heterogeneity and the size of the group that use water. According to the stratified random sampling data of 105 villages and 1549 farmers in Hubei, China, and based on the standardization and principal component factor analysis of the variables, the threshold model of the number of water user households is used to analyse the correlation between group heterogeneity and the self‐governance performance of small‐scale water conservancy facilities. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between group heterogeneity and the self‐governance performance of small‐scale water conservancy facilities in small‐sized villages, a non‐significant correlation in middle‐sized villages, and a significant negative correlation in large‐sized villages; thus, there is an inverse U‐shaped relationship between them. The policy enlightenment is as follows: (i) small‐sized villages should accelerate land circulation, and the new‐style agricultural management subjects should adopt a centralized decision‐making manner; (ii) large‐sized villages should establish civil organizations, such as water users' associations and agricultural professional cooperatives. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.