A comparison of the water management systems in France and China

Yang, Xiaoliu; Jian, Xie; Donzier, Jean-François; Noël, C.

doi:10.1007/s11783-013-0550-z

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“…11. At both regional and national levels, the development, implementation and assessment of water related policies would benefit from the establishment of a formal and recognised network of policy makers, policy engineers and scientists (Yang et al 2013). Such a network should be directly supported by a unified national scientific committee, comprising water, soil, agriculture, ecology and socio-economic experts.…”

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

Jenkins

Gao

et al. 2017

Environmental Science & Policy

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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.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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

Jenkins

Gao

et al. 2017

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…The Comité Adour-Garonne (CAG), established under the French Water Law 1964 has 135 members and consists of 40% of elected local government officials, 40% of water users and 20% of State representatives (Colon et al 2018 ). It is responsible for management and implementation of intervention programmes, and the basin-wide Master Plan for Water Development and Management (SDAGE) and sub-basin Plans for Water Development and Management (SAGE) for each of the major tributaries (Yang et al 2013 ), which emerged under the new 1992 Water Act for sustainable development (Agence de l’Eau Adour-Garonne 2020 ).…”

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River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France

Bouckaert

Wei

Pittock

et al. 2022

Ambio

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Successful river basin governance is challenged by actor engagement in the various stages of planning and management. A governance approach for determining priorities for actors for sustainable management was developed, based on a river basin diagnostic framework consisting of four social-institutional and four biophysical indicators. It was applied in river basins in Australia, Brazil, China and France. Actors diagnosed current and target capacity for these indicators, and estimated synergistic influences of interacting indicators. The results reveal different priorities and transformative pathways to achieve basin plan outcomes, specific to each basin and actor groups. Priorities include biodiversity for the Murray-Darling, local water management needs for the São Francisco and Yellow rivers, and improved decision-making for the Adour-Garonne. This novel approach challenges entrenched views about key issues and actor engagement roles in co-implementation of the basin plan under existing prevailing governance models, with implications for engagement and international collaboration on basin governance.

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“…Environmental governance is borne by subordinate river chiefs as political tasks. Subordinate river chiefs, both as "subcontractors" and administrative chiefs of their jurisdictions, usually fully mobilize and integrate various technical and administrative forces to achieve environmental goals [46,47]. Local river chiefs improve the efficiency and pertinence by reorganizing government agencies, training technicians, and establishing communication mechanism.…”

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Rethinking Environmental Bureaucracies in River Chiefs System (RCS) in China: A Critical Literature Study

Huang

2019

Sustainability

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Efforts to understand the political complexities of water governance must include critical hierarchical or bureaucratical perspectives. The River Chiefs System, China’s national mechanism which has evolved from local attempts, values more political control than governance efficiency. Water governance, which is regarded as a political task, is allocated from river chiefs at higher levels to lower levels. The River Chiefs System stipulates that local river chiefs fully mobilize and integrate various technical and administrative forces to achieve environmental goals. However, the strengthening of local authority enables local river chiefs to combat or eliminate state power. Although public involvement in the River Chiefs System is encouraged to some extent, “government-dependent” public participation hardly ensures real public involvement and supervision.

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A comparison of the water management systems in France and China

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

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

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

River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France

Rethinking Environmental Bureaucracies in River Chiefs System (RCS) in China: A Critical Literature Study

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