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- Offers insights to comprehend water resources management in China
- Presents a unique and comprehensive review and in-depth analysis of water resources management of China
- Highlights how water resources management has evolved in China over the past 40 years
Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 26)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book explores water resources management issues in China and possible solutions. It analyzes a wide range of general and specific topics, providing case studies and a balanced review of the past and present situation as well as future developments. The book begins with a general introduction and an overview of hydrology, water resources, and development issues in China. It then presents a management framework, including a management system, management institutions, river basin management, water pricing, water rights, and groundwater management, and discusses its implementation, covering water resources allocation and regulation in the Yellow River, integrated water affair management reforms, and agricultural water management in northern China. The last section focuses on the current reforms and hot topics, with strong emphasis on stringent water resource strategies applied to the river and lake principle system, recycled water use and water resources asset management, aswell as climate change impacts, and concludes with a summary of the many changes in the water sector in China and a look at the road ahead and the areas that still need to be reformed.
Keywords
- Water resources in China
- Water demand management
- Water pollution impacts
- National and regional river basins
- Yellow River water resources and allocation
- Transboundary agricultural water river management
- Hydrology, water resources and development in China
- water quality and water pollution
- water policy
- natural resources and energy economics
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Dajun Shen
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Resources Management of the People’s Republic of China
Book Subtitle: Framework, Reform and Implementation
Authors: Dajun Shen
Series Title: Global Issues in Water Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61931-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61930-5Published: 22 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61933-6Published: 22 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61931-2Published: 21 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-0631
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0658
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 455
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Hydrology/Water Resources, Environmental Management, Natural Resources