Achieve Sustainable development of rivers with water resource management - economic model of river chief system in China

Liu, Xiaojing; Pan, Yan; Zhang, Wanhao; Ying, Limeng; Huang, Wei‐Lun

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134657

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“…In a recent study analyzing the economic and social welfare brought by the RCS, Liu et al confirmed that one inevitable outcome of the RCS was the cross-regional Sustainable Water Resource Management Affairs (SWRMA) negotiations. The authors indicated that the system could help in avoiding transactional and external costs in cross-regional SWRMA negotiations and that the efficiency of the RCS could be further enhanced by environmental negotiations and coordination mechanisms between different governments [39].…”

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Full Implementation of the River Chief System in China: Outcome and Weakness

Tong

Wang

2020

Sustainability

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Despite having explored various modes of water management over the past three decades, the water crisis persists and the Chinese government has been required to revolutionize river management from the top down. The River Chief System (RCS), which evolved from small scale, local efforts to manage rivers starting in 2007, is an innovative system that coordinates between existing ‘fragmented’ river/lake management and pollution control systems, to clearly define the responsibilities of all concerned departments. The system was promoted from an emergent policy to nationwide action in 2016, and ever since, has undergone steady development. We have analyzed recent developments in the system from the perspectives of functional expansion, implementation strategies, legislative processes, and public outreach after the full implementation of the RCS. By collecting data over the past several years, the changes in the water quality of representative watersheds in China were evaluated to assess the outcomes of RCS implementation. Finally, a summary of the weaknesses and outstanding problems of the system is presented, putting forward a multi-channel strategy for the long-term stability and effectiveness of river/lake chiefs, and promoting the RCS as a suitable solution to the collaborative and jurisdictional issues in water management in China.

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Full Implementation of the River Chief System in China: Outcome and Weakness

Tong

Wang

2020

Sustainability

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“…and mobilizes local governments' incentives to govern water [32]. Xiong Ye also believes that RCS addresses the lack of authority in trans-regional river governance, which uses the authority of the river chief and the river chief's office to improve integration and implementation in trans-regional river governance.…”

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Effect of River Chief System on Carbon Emission Efficiency: Evidence from China

Chen,

Wei

2024

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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As a new type of environmental regulation implemented independently by local governments in recent years, the River Chief System (RCS) has become an important institutional innovation for the coordinated development of the economy and environment. However, most scholars only pay attention to the contribution of the river chief system in the field of water governance and ignore the changes made to regional carbon control. Based on panel data from 282 cities in China from 2007 to 2019, a time-varying DID was used to assess the policy impact of RCS on urban carbon emission efficiency. Our study found that: (1) The RCS has improved the efficiency of urban carbon emissions through industrial structure upgrading and green technology innovation. (2) Heterogeneity analysis shows that central cities and nonresource-oriented cities are more susceptible to the influence of the RCS and improve carbon emission efficiency. More than that, cities with appropriate environmental regulation intensity can better leverage the carbon governance effect of RCS. (3) The RCS has formed an unexpected policy effect of "beggar thy neighbor" in space, and its effect has a time lag.

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“…As a result, the policy system is ensured by the RCS. The characteristics of the institutional setting and task arrangement determine that the RCS is more authoritative and binding than previous water pollution management policies in China, and the policy is more sustainable [ 10 , 11 ]. The impact of the RCS on the game system and the considerations in designing the model are also different from those examined in previous studies.…”

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Game Analysis of the Evolution of Local Government’s River Chief System Implementation Strategy

Wang

Wan

2022

IJERPH

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As the executor of the River Chief System (RCS), local governments’ choice of implementation strategies directly affects the quality of regional water environment. The implementation of the RCS involves many interest subjects, and has gradually formed a game between enterprises’ sewage management and local governments’ RCS implementation strategies, and a game between the RCS implementation strategies of different local governments. The game behavior between the interested parties is long-term and dynamic in nature. Strategies such as reducing the cost of local governments’ implementation of the RCS and increasing the rate of sewage charges will lead to the evolution of the strategy set between enterprises’ treatment of sewage and local governments’ RCS implementation in the direction of {complete treatment of sewage, strictly enforcing the RCS}. Analysis of the evolutionary game model between the local governments reveals that strategies such as reducing the weight of economic indicators in local governments’ assessment, and increasing the material and spiritual rewards for implementing the RCS, will lead to the evolutionary game outcome of implementing the RCS between the local governments in the direction of {strictly enforcing the RCS, strictly enforcing the RCS}. The external effects of sewage discharge do not affect the evolution of the game system between the local governments.

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Achieve Sustainable development of rivers with water resource management - economic model of river chief system in China

Cited by 42 publications

References 36 publications

Full Implementation of the River Chief System in China: Outcome and Weakness

Full Implementation of the River Chief System in China: Outcome and Weakness

Effect of River Chief System on Carbon Emission Efficiency: Evidence from China

Game Analysis of the Evolution of Local Government’s River Chief System Implementation Strategy

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