The Red Flag Canal: a socio-ecological practice miracle from serendipity, through impossibility, to reality

Wei-Ning Xiang

doi:10.1007/s42532-019-00037-z

The Red Flag Canal: a socio-ecological practice miracle from serendipity, through impossibility, to reality

Socioecol Pract Res. 2020;2(1):105-110. doi: 10.1007/s42532-019-00037-z. Epub 2019 Nov 20.

Author

Wei-Ning Xiang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
² The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC USA.

Abstract

This showcase article presents a 50-year-old, 1500-km-long irrigation canal in China as an exemplary case of socio-ecological practice. With a focus on its genesis, the article is the first of a mini-series on one of the best kept secrets in the history of socio-ecological practice.

Keywords: China; Common-pool resource (CPR); Ecophronesis; Irrigated farmland; Irrigation canal; Irrigation system; Moral improvisation; Socio-ecological practice; The Red Flag Canal.