Environmental justice and ecological civilization in the Pearl River Delta, China

Li, Chen; Ng, Mee Kam; Xu, Ying; Yow, Tsz Chung

doi:10.1080/15387216.2023.2220340

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“…In China, it is almost impossible to oppose the central government's hydrosocial territories and environmental imaginaries. For example, while [42] find that while ecological civilization may fall short of addressing multi-dimensional and multi-scalar social and environmental justice issues, it still underpins China's transformative development vision in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and one is able to oppose it. This is because China's mode of water and environmental governance is largely based on authoritarian environmentalism, which has a non-participatory nature in policymaking [23].…”

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Territorial Pluralism in China: Local Water Users’ Adaptation Strategies in the South–North Water Transfer Project

Zhou,

Chen,

et al. 2024

Water

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China’s South–North Water Transfer Project has been questioned as it has resulted in significantly negative issues. Drawing on the notion of hydrosocial territories, this article examines the contested hydraulic configuration and counter-imaginaries from local water users’ perspectives and their specific adaptation strategies in the South–North Water Transfer Project. This article argues that local water users in a Chinese context can only adopt adaptation strategies that are determined by their socio-economic backgrounds. This has led to significant social and environmental injustice. Addressing these issues is crucial for tackling inequities in the South–North Water Transfer Project and achieving the ambitious development goals of the project.

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Territorial Pluralism in China: Local Water Users’ Adaptation Strategies in the South–North Water Transfer Project

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“…Trends in water levels vary spatially and temporally within the Pearl River Delta (Figure 5). Before sand mining, the mean water level (MWL) in the upper part of the delta exhibits a gradual rise due to the block-out of many small tributaries (Li, 1985). Other metrics also tend to increase with the rise of MWL.…”

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Peak Water Level Response to Channel Deepening Depends on Interaction Between Tides and the River Flow

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The Pearl River Delta represents a tide‐influenced lowland delta where sand mining has deepened the distributary channels. This study sets out to investigate the impacts of channel deepening on peak water levels across the delta. Based on collected hydrological data before and after sediment mining and hydrodynamic modeling, three regions are identified where sand mining‐induced changes in peak water levels have a different underlying cause. In the river‐dominated regions, peak water levels have significantly decreased because of the sand excavation, and thus the associated flood risk was reduced. In a transition region, the sand mining practice has increased peak water levels. In the tide‐dominated coastal region, the changes in peak water levels follow the rise in sea level and respond to human activities such as land reclamation. To understand the underlying mechanisms, the changes of subtidal friction governing tidal dynamics before and during sand mining are explored, and a simple linear regression model is used to predict subtidal water levels governing peak flood levels. Results from the hydrodynamic model and the linear regression models quantify exactly how the direct effect of channel bed lowering, river‐tide interaction, tidal amplification, and sea level rise have contributed to peak water level change, which offers a new analysis framework that can be applied in other systems.

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Low-carbon city development from a multi-level governance perspective: a comparative study of Shenzhen, China and the City of Darebin, Australia

Li,

Xu,

Jiang

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Environmental justice and ecological civilization in the Pearl River Delta, China

Cited by 5 publications

References 84 publications

Territorial Pluralism in China: Local Water Users’ Adaptation Strategies in the South–North Water Transfer Project

Territorial Pluralism in China: Local Water Users’ Adaptation Strategies in the South–North Water Transfer Project

Peak Water Level Response to Channel Deepening Depends on Interaction Between Tides and the River Flow

Low-carbon city development from a multi-level governance perspective: a comparative study of Shenzhen, China and the City of Darebin, Australia

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