China's water environmental management towards institutional integration. A review of current progress and constraints vis-a-vis the European experience

Deng, Yajuan; Brombal, Daniele; Farah, Paolo Davide; Moriggi, Angela; Critto, Andrea; Zhou, Yixin; Marcomini, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.022

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“…China's rapid urbanization has been accompanied by economic growth and transformation. With the rapid development of the economy and the improvement of the level of urbanization, the government and enterprises have increased the construction of water utilities [38], introduced advanced water treatment processes [38], and strengthened the protection of water environment of consciousness and planning [38,39]; thus, the water quality qualified rate is correspondingly improved.…”

Section: Relationship Between the Comprehensive Water Quality And Urbmentioning

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Effects of Urbanization on Rural Drinking Water Quality in Beijing, China

Zhang¹,

Gao²,

Wei

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Urbanization is an inevitable trend in historical development, but eco-environmental problems, including drinking water safety, have gradually become more and more outstanding during the process of rural urbanization. Ten districts in rural areas of Beijing, China were selected to study the effects of urbanization on drinking water quality. The relation between the urbanization index and drinking water quality indicators were explored. The influence of the urbanization process on drinking water quality showed that housing construction, population urbanization, energy consumption, and industrialization during urban development were closely related to drinking water quality. The paired t-test showed the total electricity consumption, living electricity consumption, tertiary industry, and the GDP growth rate had boundary (p = 0.06) or significantly positive (p < 0.05) relations with the qualified rate of rural drinking water. The grey correlation analysis showed that the growth rates of the value-added of housing construction areas were the most important factor affecting comprehensive water quality of Beijing rural areas, followed by the growth rates of the value-added by secondary industry and total electricity consumption, and then the growth rates of the value-added by the tertiary industry and GDP. Urbanization had a significant impact on individual water quality indicators. The results of this study provided some supports for drinking water security in the face of urbanization.

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Section: Relationship Between the Comprehensive Water Quality And Urbmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Urbanization on Rural Drinking Water Quality in Beijing, China

Zhang¹,

Gao²,

Wei

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…We first test the effect of the command-control policy and the government environmental policy on firms' pollutant emissions (COD and NH 3 ). Table 2 reports two sets of estimation results from Equation (17); the log form of COD and NH 3 discharges are used as the dependent variables, respectively. All columns include 4-digit fixed effects and year fixed effects.…”

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“…According to his study, the externalities brought out by the CWA at the downstream area reached $17 million [14].Using water pollution data from 240,000 monitoring sites of all U.S. rivers, Keiser and Shapiro found that the CWA's grants to municipal wastewater treatment plants contribute most to clean river water in U.S. [12].Unlike the CWA,-a decentralization regulation, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the EU has been considered as a centralization regulation. Deng et al appraised the regulatory, administrative, monitoring, and public participation of the WFD and proposed what China can learn from it when moving towards institutional integration [17].…”

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“…In India, Greenstone and Hanna prove that the decentralized water environment setting, the National River Conservation Plan, is almost completely ineffective because of a lack of environmental protection funds, a weak environmental institutional background, and difficulty in regional or department cooperation [9]. Although Brazil's decentralized water management reform has somewhat reduced water pollution, it has also brought out a serious problem of free riding [17,18].…”

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Can China’s Government-Oriented Environmental Regulation Reduce Water Pollution? Evidence from Water Pollution Intensive Firms

2020

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China’s environmental regulation regime remains mainly government-oriented, consisting of the government environmental investment policy and the command–control policy. This paper first improves the traditional environment Copeland-Taylor model by including the above two types of government-oriented environment instruments. Then, based on a comprehensive firm-level dataset, we examine the effects of government-oriented environmental instruments on firms’ water pollutant emission abatement in the Yangtze River Economic zone. We find robust evidence of a significant decrease of 2.99% in chemical Oxygen Demand(COD) discharge and of 3.55% in ammonia nitrogen(NH3) discharge of firms in response to the government environmental investment policy, whereas the command–control instrument shows little effect on firms’ water pollutant emission reduction. Our results are robust when using alternative measurements for two types of environmental instruments. Additionally, we also find there exist heterogeneous effects across sub-samples: (1)comparing with large and medium firms, small and micro firms are more liable to be influenced by the two types of government-oriented environmental instruments; (2) the effect of two types of government-oriented environmental instruments is obviously significant in the intensive-water-pollution industry, whereas it is not obvious in other industries; (3) the effect of government environmental investment is obvious on state-owned enterprises and domestic joint ventures, whereas the command–control policy has effectively reduced the water pollutant discharge for domestic joint ventures and private firms. Finally, this study also presents some future policy implications.

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“…Since ecological civilization was officially taken as a national strategy in 2012, environmental monitoring has been required to provide a solid science-based support for the ecosystem conservation (Deng et al 2016). The monitoring and assessment of watershed pollution have transformed from dose-response analysis based on single sensitive/resistant species to the evaluation of ecosystem structure and function change (Jones et al 2010;Pinel-Alloul et al 1996;Siddig et al 2016).…”

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Ecology of industrial pollution in China

Yuan

Lü

Wang

et al. 2020

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Industrial development has brought China both opportunities and challenges since the reform and opening up in 1978. Spatial and temporal analysis showed that rapid industrialization has made eastern China under a more serious pollution stress. The most serious effects of industrial pollution were reflected in aquatic and soil ecosystem degradation, and damage can be observed from species, population, and community to ecosystem level. Public consciousness about contaminated sites rose from 2004 leading to greater efforts in ecological remediation, monitoring, and risk governance. Considerable efforts are still needed in expanding the extent and breadth of monitoring to explore where the greatest ecological risks lie and how to control them. Ecology of industrial pollution has become a popular discipline in China and will be further developed to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Future research for a better ecological risk management should be focused on multi-media transfer and effects of mixed pollutants, mechanisms for clean energy and material flow, and integration of ecological risk with human health risk.

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China's water environmental management towards institutional integration. A review of current progress and constraints vis-a-vis the European experience

Cited by 36 publications

References 17 publications

Effects of Urbanization on Rural Drinking Water Quality in Beijing, China

Effects of Urbanization on Rural Drinking Water Quality in Beijing, China

Can China’s Government-Oriented Environmental Regulation Reduce Water Pollution? Evidence from Water Pollution Intensive Firms

Ecology of industrial pollution in China

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