Preface Chapter 1 Historical Perspective of Sustainable Rural Development 1.1 Rural Problbems,Rural Vision:A Historical Perspecitive 1.2 National and Local Government Agencies in Relation to Rural Enterprise 1.3 Sustainable Development 1.4 Town and Village Enterprises(TVE):Associated Rural Welfare 1.5 Chinese Technoloyg Imports 1.6 Technologica Capability and Innovation Iinkde to Rural Enterprise 1.7 Rural Challenges 1.8 Information Services 1.9 Changes outside China Chapter 2 Major National Water Resource Concerns 2.1 Did You Know? 2.2 Problems-Newspaper Cutting 2.3 Summary Chapter 3 Learning and Problem Solving 3.1 Whiat s Learning? 3.2 Is Learning Something that Happerns to Individuals or Groups? 3.3 Are Coping with Change and Problem Solving Related? 3.4 Resistance to Change 3.5 Decision-Making 3.6 The Concept of Control 3.7 What's the Problem?Characteristics of Systems Analysis Chapter 4 Benchmarking 4.1 Whait is Benchmarking? 4.2 Origins of Benchmarking 4.3 Applying the Benchmarking Tool 4.4 Enterprise Benchmarking 4.5 Public Sector Benchmarking 4.6 Framework Conditions:Benchmarking Chapter 5 Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Chapter 6 Chinese Vision Chapter 7 Benchmarking Watershed (Basin) Methodology Chapter 8 Benchmarking Irrigation Water Management Chapter 9 Background to Rural Water Supply Chapter 10 Appropriate Rural Wastewater Treatment Chapter 11 Groundwater Recharge and Protection Chapter 12 Putting Boundaries on Problems: Tools for Search, Appraisal,Design, Simulation and Risk Assessment Chapter 13 Environmental Protection Chapter 14 Interventions and Planning Concepts Chapter 15 Data Collection and Storage Cataloguing, Evaluation,Processing and Analysis Chapter 16 Innovation Management Chapter 17 Renewable Energy References Vocabulary