Identification and behavioral characteristics of stakeholders of a water diversion project based on ‘sustainable supply chain theory’

Abstract

The South-to-North Water Diversion project, as one of China's strategic projects, plays an important role in China's development. It's been 68 years since the project was conceived, in 2014, the central route project began to supply water. Users along the route are both beneficiaries and project influencers. Their behavior characteristics in the project operation, have become a topic worthy of study. In this paper, based on questionnaire conducted among government departments, enterprises and residents and stakeholder theory, under the theory model of Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC), around the Triple Bottom Line(TBL) including society, economy and environment, the ecological compensation, sewage treatment and reservoir operation management in Xichuan county were investigated and studied. A total of 289 answers were recovered. Through the survey, it is found that: Stakeholders include 15 township governments in Xichuan County, water conservancy project supporting facilities construction companies, ecological industry companies, water supply companies and other enterprises, as well as agricultural growers, rural farmers and non-agricultural residents in Xichuan County. Government stakeholders pursue the development of the overall operation of the project, while enterprises and residents pursue the development of individual economy. Finally, this paper lists the relevant indexes, which provides conditions for behavior evolution analysis and sustainable research of the project.

A stakeholder perspective on social stability risk of public–private partnerships project for water environmental governance in China: A social network analysis

“…However, in the past two decades, due to the sustainable development requirements for the environment, ecology, and the relationship between stakeholders and surrounding communities, the social goals of projects are more closely related to local residents, the public or the government (Zorrilla et al, 2009;Sun et al, 2020). Therefore, the social impact of a project has become increasingly important, and more attention has been paid to improving the social impacts and reducing negative effects (Haldar et al, 2021;Lu et al, 2021). Moreover, as Delmon (2000) and Xu et al (2010) pointed out, social risks will affect project results so significantly that they should be handled with caution.…”

“…Of late years, in order to solve the challenges arising from the increasingly complex engineering environment from the perspectives of technology, politics, economy, ecology and society, stakeholder-related research has concentrated on exhaustive stakeholder management analysis of construction projects, including the key success factors of stakeholder management, stakeholder-related risk analysis and social network analysis of project stakeholders (Mok et al, 2017;Yuan et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2020). As illustrated by Lu et al (2021) and Li et al (2020), the adverse impact on the stakeholders of a construction project, will cause social issues and may affect the project execution. Therefore, further stakeholder impact analysis should be carried out to reduce social risks.…”