Implementing Integrated River Basin Management in China

Boekhorst, D.G.J. te; Smits, A.J.M.; Xiao, Yu; Li, Lifeng; Li, Gang; Chen, Z.

doi:10.4337/9781849803366.00017

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“…Fourth, as to better understand to what extent the context in which this research was conducted might have influenced our resultsthat is, a small country marked by a dense and highly consensus-based policy network-future research needs to draw on an extended research design that includes international comparisons. After all, Te Boekhorst et al (2010) have shown that policy entrepreneurs in a centralized country such as China have a rather different role and position as compared with those in European countries. …”

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Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management

Brouwer¹,

Biermann²

2011

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ABSTRACT. The growing awareness of the complexities and uncertainties in water management has put into question the existing paradigms in this field. Increasingly more flexible, integrated, and adaptive policies are promoted. In this context, the understanding of how to effect policy change is becoming more important. This article analyzes policy making at the micro level, focusing on the behavior of policy entrepreneurs, which we understand here as risk-taking bureaucrats who seek to change policy and are involved throughout the policy-change process. Policy entrepreneurs have received a certain level of attention in the adaptive co-management literature and the policy sciences in past decades. Yet, the understanding of the actions they can take to facilitate policy change remains limited. This study addresses this gap in focusing on the strategies that policy entrepreneurs employ in their efforts to effect policy change. The article draws on both theoretical exploration and in-depth field research on water management in the Netherlands, which included a series of semi-structured interviews and a focus group with policy entrepreneurs. We conclude that policy entrepreneurs employ four types of strategies: (1) attention and support-seeking strategies, to demonstrate the significance of a problem and to convince a wide range of participants about their preferred policy; (2) linking strategies, to link with other parties, projects, ideas, and policy games; (3) relational management strategies, to manage the relational factor in policy-change trajectories; and finally, (4) arena strategies, to influence the time and place wherein decisions are made. Our study suggests that by employing these strategies when the "time is right," the development of policy streams and consequently their coupling can, to some extent, be influenced and steered. In other words, policy entrepreneurs can, to a degree, prepare for a window of opportunity and hence direct policy change.

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Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management

Brouwer¹,

Biermann²

2011

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“…Aimed at restoring ecological conditions at river basin level, it is applied to mitigate human pressures on natural ecosystems and to promote a healthy ecological environment [3][4][5]. Defined by the Global Water Partnership [1] as "the process of coordinating conservation, management and development of water, land and related resources across sectors within a given river basin in order to maximize the economic and social benefits derived from water resources in an equitable manner while preserving and/or restoring freshwater ecosystems", it is a holistic and unified approach [1].…”

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Spatial Preference Heterogeneity for Integrated River Basin Management: The Case of the Shiyang River Basin, China

2016

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Integrated river basin management (IRBM) programs have been launched in most parts of China to ease escalating environmental degradation. Meanwhile, little is known about the benefits from and the support for these programs. This paper presents a case study of the preference heterogeneity for IRBM in the Shiyang River Basin, China, as measured by the Willingness to Pay (WTP), for a set of major restoration attributes. A discrete choice analysis of relevant restoration attributes was conducted. The results based on a sample of 1012 households in the whole basin show that, on average, there is significant support for integrated ecological restoration as indicated by significant WTP for all ecological attributes. However, residential location induced preference heterogeneities are prevalent. Generally, compared to upper-basin residents, middle sub-basin residents have lower mean WTP while lower sub-basin residents express higher mean WTP. The disparity in utility is partially explained by the difference in ecological and socio-economic status of the residents. In conclusion, estimating welfare benefit of IRBM projects based on sample responses from a specific sub-section of the basin only may either understate or overstate the welfare estimate.

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“…The fact is, there are very few reported cases of public participation in the design of flood retention areas in Asia. The participatory process studied by Te Boekhorst et al () in China was organised by a nongovernmental organisation. To date, there have been no studies on the extent to which—whether or not in the framework of formal public participation processes—Asian public agencies combine flood retention measures and compensation schemes that meet the interests of farmers located in the areas that will be flooded and hence facilitate their acceptance of the project.…”

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Difficult encounters around “monkey cheeks”: Farmers' interests and the design of flood retention areas in Thailand

Trakuldit

Faysse

2019

J Flood Risk Management

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Flood retention areas are being increasingly promoted for flood risk management. People living in these areas will accept them if their interests are taken into account. The present study analyses the extent to which farmers' interests were taken into account in two flood retention projects in Thailand. A feasibility study was conducted in preparation for the first project which included public participation. The second project was a pilot project implemented in the same zone at a small scale. Participants in the public participation process and farmers living in proposed flood retention areas were interviewed for the purpose of the present study. Agreement could have been reached between the farmers and the public agencies concerning the flood retention areas. However, the participation process did not enable frank discussion about the conditions under which farmers would accept the project. The second project was designed without public participation and offered very little compensation to farmers. In countries marked by power imbalances in water resources management, public agencies may impose flood retention areas, but the absence of agreements with farmers can reduce the effectiveness of the measure. Reaching such agreements requires challenging the imbalanced power relationships between farmers and public agencies.

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Implementing Integrated River Basin Management in China

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management

Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management

Spatial Preference Heterogeneity for Integrated River Basin Management: The Case of the Shiyang River Basin, China

Difficult encounters around “monkey cheeks”: Farmers' interests and the design of flood retention areas in Thailand

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