The Connotation and Extension of Agricultural Water Resources Security

摘要

The objective of this study is to define agricultural water resources security and its connotation and extension. Thedefinitions of water security, water resources security, and water environment security were summarized, and theirrelationship was differentiated and analyzed. Based on these, the elements of the conception of agricultural waterresources security were hashed and theconception was defined. Agricultural water resources security is the provision ofwater resource that ensures protection of agriculture against threat, hazards, destruction, and loss. Moreover, theconnotation and extension of agricultural water resources security were ascertained. In detail, the connotation of thedefinition has natural attributes, socioeconomic attributes, and cultural attributes. The extensions of agricultural waterresources security include both broad and narrow ones, as well as, food security, agroenvironmental security, agroeconomicsecurity, 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.