Sustainable management of irrigation infrastructures in China: The role of lineage and resource endowment

From perspectives of the degree of lineage networks, households’ residence in this paper we analyzes the influence of the lineage networks and the resource endowment on the households’ participation willingness to contribute to irrigation infrastructures. With the fieldwork data in Jintang County of Chengdu City, we found that the degree lineage networks is helpful to enhance the belonging sense of households, so as to promote the households’ willingness. Living in cities and towns will weaken households’ participation willingness to contribute to small irrigation infrastructures. Hakka households’ participation willingness to contribute to small irrigation infrastructures prefer the interests of their own lineages. Our research helps to understand how lineage informal institutions facilitate sustainable management of irrigation infrastructures.