China's Water Resources Management

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-13

3. Water and Development

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   Pages 15-49

4. Overview of Water Resources

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   Pages 51-104

5. Water Plan and Governance System

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   Pages 105-152

6. Sustainable Water Use

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   Pages 153-189

7. Water Quality Management

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   Pages 191-228

8. Water Resources Development

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   Pages 229-292

9. Water and Wastewater Service Market

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   Pages 293-335

10. Transboundary Rivers

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    Pages 337-375

11. Conclusion

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    Pages 377-381

12. Back Matter

    Pages 383-394

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This book investigates water resources management and policy in China over the last two decades with a core focus on the role of water for socioeconomic development and sustainability. Recent policies, such as the Three Red Lines and the Water Ten Plan are evaluated for sustainable water supply, use and quality control. The book appraises solutions through demand management, water rights and pollution trading, virtual water and water footprint. Supply management is discussed taking examples from the Three Gorges Dam and the South North Water Transfer Project. The water market is investigated uncovering the active engagement of the private sector and includes discussions on how transboundary rivers demonstrate China’s engagement with its riparian countries for benefit sharing. This book will be an invaluable reference for researchers in the field as well as practitioners and students who have an interest in water and development in China.

 

• water resource management
• water policy
• water governance
• water governance in China
• mega-scale water engineering projects
• water pollution
• water and development
• Water shortage and supply
• Urban and rural water challenges
• Water quality in major rivers, lakes, and aquifers
• IWRM in the Chinese context
• virtual water
• water footprint
• Water-energy-food nexus
• Environmental Geography

In today’s world, water is at the nexus of economic development, human well-being, and long-term environmental sustainability. There is no more important resource on earth, and no country faces water-related challenges on a greater scale than China. Seungho Lee’s book, China’s Water Resources Management: A Long March to Sustainability, is an in-depth and extremely timely examination of a wide array of challenges—from increasing pressure on surface and groundwater, to water pollution, climate change, urbanization, hydropower development, and transboundary river management.

Drawing on the metaphor of the Long March, a military excursion in the 1930s that ultimately helped consolidate the power of the Chinese Communist Party, Lee analyzes the range of strategies – including institutional restructuring, law and policy, technological innovation, and public-private partnerships – that Chinese leaders are using to meet these challenges. Lee grounds his analysis in scholarly materialsand data from both English and Chinese sources, and discusses how China’s progress will be crucial for meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, the book will be of great value to scholars, policymakers, and environmental organizations operating in China and beyond. 

Professor Bryan Tilt, Professor of Anthropology, School of Language, Culture and Society, Oregon State University, USA

• Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

  Seungho Lee

Dr. Seungho Lee is Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University. His research interests are diverse, including institutional change in water policy, transboundary water cooperation and conflict, and public private partnership projects in water supply and sanitation services with reference to China, Korea, Southeast Asia and Europe. 

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