Water Resources Management in the People's Republic of China (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sun, Xuetao; Shen, Dajun; Speed, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes China's approach to allocating and managing its water resources. It looks at China's development of a water rights, including the introduction of basin planning, environmental flows, and water trading.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317989158
• Artikelnr.: 58400137

Autorenporträt

Sun Xuetao is the Deputy-Director of the Department of Water Resources, Ministry of Water Resources, People's Republic of China. In that role, he leads the formulation and implementation of China's policies for water resources management. He has worked in water resources management in China for almost ten years. Robert Speed is a water policy consultant from Brisbane, Australia and was the Australian Team Leader on the China Water Entitlements and Trading project from 2006-8. Robert has held senior positions in the Water Reform Unit of the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water and was involved in the development and implementation of the Australian water sector reforms. Shen Dajun is a senior engineer at the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, and has worked in water resources management for more than 10 years. He had been the team leader for more than 10 international and domestic water projects and has published more than 50 books and papers on water resources management.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Overview of water resources and water management arrangements in China
Robert Speed and Martin Cosier 2. Water rights and trading and the future
of water rights in China Bin Liu 3. Water resources allocation in China
Dajun Shen and Robert Speed 4. Approaches to determining and defining
requirements for environmental flows in Chinese rivers Xiqin Wang and
Cassie James 5. Management of urban water supplies Martin Cosier and Dajun
Shen 6. Agricultural water rights in China Roger Calow 7. Water transfers
and trading Robert Speed 8. Water resources allocation in the Shiyang river
basin Zhongjing Wang 9. Balancing water demands and environmental flows in
the Jiao River Martin Cosier, Chris Gippel, Cassie James and Nick Bond 10.
Granting water rights to farmers in Hangjin irrigation district Zhongjing
Wang 11. Water rights: lessons for China and lessons from China Robert
Speed