Ensuring water resource security in China; the need for advances in evidence-based policy to support sustainable management
| Autor: | Jing Liu, Dong Wang, Hong Li, Alan Jenkins, Robert C. Ferrier, Xuebin Qi, Liangguo Luo, Mark J. Bailey, Xiangrong Xie, Zhengtao Liu, Tim J. Daniell, Liuqian Ding, Fang Yu, Bing Zhang, Stuart Kirk, Yiwen Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Yonglong Lu, Richard J. Williams, Mike Acreman, Hongxian Liu, Xuejun Liu, Shuzhong Gu, Chao Ma, Jamie Hannaford, Shi-Ji Gao, Yuan Zhang, Anita Jobson, Aizhong Ding, Lili Yu, Denghua Yan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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education.field_of_study
Economic growth Government Resource (biology) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Geography Planning and Development Population 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Water security Sustainable management Sustainability Business education China Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Evidence-based policy |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Science & Policy. 75:65-69 |
| ISSN: | 1462-9011 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.05.008 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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