China's political system, economic reform and the governance of water quality in the Pearl River Basin

Silveira, ANDRé

doi:10.4337/9781781955055.00030

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“…In the Chinese context, this is less surprising. However, it is important to note there is a trend of locally driven collaboration among a number of (semi-)governmental stakeholders with divergent interests, as also shown in previous research on the Pearl River and the Xijiang sub-basin (Silveira 2014). All in all, even within an increasingly polycentric system of natural resource governance, with increasingly important roles for market and civil society actors (McGinnis and Ostrom 2010), the state holds decisive cards both in the Chinese and European contexts, albeit in different ways.…”

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“…In the Chinese context, informal institutions permeate all levels of administration and facilitate exchange of important information as well as decision-making. This seems to contribute to an improved capacity to monitor and understand catchment environmental processes (Silveira 2014). In addition, personal networks have played important roles in the bargaining processes determining how laws and policies are to be ultimately implemented by local governments (Zheng 2006).…”

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Organizing cross-sectoral collaboration in river basin management: case studies from the Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) basins

Silveira

Junier

Hüesker

et al. 2016

International Journal of River Basin Management

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Organizing cross-sectoral collaboration in river basin management: case studies from the Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) basins

Silveira

Junier

Hüesker

et al. 2016

International Journal of River Basin Management

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“…There are nine national-level ministries involved in water administration and policy within China. The MWR is charged with many aspects of water resource policy formulation and coordination, although some of its mandates overlap with those of other ministries and legislation resulting in some lack of clarity as to which mandates belong to which ministries (Feng et al, 2006;Silviera, 2014). MWR is divided into a number of departments and seven River Commissions, and bears principal responsibility for coordinating activity in transboundary (inter-provincial and multi-national) surface water resources.…”

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Translational Science for Climate Services: Mapping and Understanding Users’ Climate Service Needs in CSSP China

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The Climate Science for Service Partnership China (CSSP China) is a joint program between China and the United Kingdom to build the basis for climate services to support the weather and climate resilient economic development and welfare in China. Work Package 5 (WP5) provides the translational science on identification of: different users and providers, and their mandates; factors contributing to communication gaps and capacities between various users and providers; and mechanisms to work through such issues to develop and/or evolve a range of climate services. Key findings to emerge include that users from different sectors have varying capacities, requirements, and needs for information in their decision contexts, with a current strong preference for weather information. Separating climate and weather services when engaging users is often not constructive. Furthermore, there is a need to move to a service delivery model that is more user-driven and science informed; having sound climate science is not enough to develop services that are credible, salient, reliable, or timely for diverse user groups. Greater investment in building the capacity of the research community supporting and providing climate services to conduct translational sciences and develop regular user engagement processes is much needed. Such a move would help support the China Meteorological Administration’s (CMA) ongoing efforts to improve climate services. It would also assist in potentially linking a broader group of “super” users who currently act as providers and purveyors of climate services because they find the existing offerings are not relevant to their needs or cannot access CMA’s services.

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“…China also has its strengths and weaknesses in water environment governance due to its unique political and administrative system. In China, the Central Government can pool resources and coordinate arrangements to address watershed governance issues on a national scale [5]. Over the past 50 years, the Government has invested massively in water management.…”

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“…Furthermore, watershed governance is primarily based on administrative boundaries, rather than at the watershed level. Each jurisdictional subject seeks to achieve its objectives and is not obliged to consider the subsequent impacts of its actions [5]. There is the potential for competition and inefficiency in time and space.…”

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Performance Evaluation of Watershed Environment Governance—A Case Study of Taihu Basin

Huang

Hua

Dai

2022

Water

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The rapid development of urbanization and industrialization brings a series of problems of environment governance, and several basins are facing huge pressure. This paper selects the Taihu basin in the Yangtze River Delta of China as the study area, establishes the DPSIR model to measure the water environment governance performance of the region (), analyzes the causes of changes in the five subsystems (the governance performance of the subsystems is recorded as ), and uses the diagnostic model to identify the barrier factors that restrict the improvement of in the last 5 years. The results show that during the study period， of the driving force subsystem generally tends to increase and maintains a steady growth, which is closely linked to economic growth in the basin; of the pressure subsystem increases with a small fluctuation, and the pollution generation still needs attention; in the state subsystem, shows a large fluctuation, and varies significantly in a cyclical manner, corresponding to the short maintenance time and repeated treatment of pollution in the watershed; of the impact subsystem shows an overall upward but a slightly slower trend, and it is related to the fact that the industrial structure of the basin still needs to be improved; and of the response subsystem shows an overall upward trend and a slightly larger increase, and the multi-actor collaborative management has helped a lot. The main barrier factors include key cross-sections’ water quality compliance rate, the water quality compliance rate of key water function areas, water consumption per 10,000 yuan of industrial added value, and the lake trophic status index. Based on the results of the study, the article gives recommendations for watershed governance, such as controlling pollution generation, optimising industrial structure, using technological tools to help governance, sharing the cost of governance among multiple parties and strengthening supervision The findings help to make scientific environmental protection planning and policies of the study region. The research can also provide experience for other countries and regions in watershed governance.

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China's political system, economic reform and the governance of water quality in the Pearl River Basin

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Organizing cross-sectoral collaboration in river basin management: case studies from the Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) basins

Organizing cross-sectoral collaboration in river basin management: case studies from the Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) basins

Translational Science for Climate Services: Mapping and Understanding Users’ Climate Service Needs in CSSP China

Performance Evaluation of Watershed Environment Governance—A Case Study of Taihu Basin

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