Ensuring water resource security in China; the need for advances in evidence-based policy to support sustainable management

Shuzhong Gu, Alan Jenkins, Shi-Ji Gao, Yonglong Lu, Hong Li, Yuanyuan Li, Robert C. Ferrier, Mark Bailey, Yiwen Wang, Yuan Zhang, Xuebin Qi, Lili Yu, Liuqian Ding, Tim Daniell, Richard Williams, Jamie Hannaford, Mike Acreman, Stuart Kirk, Hongxian Liu, Zhengtao Liu, Liangguo Luo, Denghua Yan, Xuejun Liu, Fang Yu, Dong Wang, Bing Zhang, Aizhong Ding, Xiangrong Xie, Jing Liu, Chao Ma and Anita Jobson

Environmental Science & Policy, 2017, vol. 75, issue C, 65-69

Abstract: China currently faces a water resource sustainability problem which is likely to worsen into the future. The Chinese government is attempting to address this problem through legislative action, but faces severe challenges in delivering its high ambitions. The key challenges revolve around the need to balance water availability with the need to feed a growing population under a changing climate and its ambitions for increased economic development. This is further complicated by the complex and multi-layered government departments, often with overlapping jurisdictions, which are not always aligned in their policy implementation and delivery mechanisms. There remain opportunities for China to make further progress and this paper reports on the outcomes of a science-to-policy roundtable meeting involving scientists and policy-makers in China. It identifies, in an holistic manner, new opportunities for additional considerations for policy implementation, continued and new research requirements to ensure evidence-based policies are designed and implemented and identifies the needs and opportunities to effectively monitor their effectiveness. Other countries around the world can benefit from assessing this case study in China.

Keywords: China; Water resources; Water security; Policy; Sustainable management; Research requirements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.05.008

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