Trade-offs in designing water pollution trading policy with multiple objectives: A case study in the Tai Lake Basin, China

Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Spatial Differentiation of Urban Black and Odorous Waters in China

“…The influence indicators obtained in the present study can be then incorporated into the content and scheme of the sustainable water environment system indicators to develop more complete safety system for water systems [49,50]. Based on the core influencing factors, the government can establish a water pollution trading plan and develop a series of water environmental quality standards [51], forming a penalty system with differential levy for different types of polluters who have violated the standards [52]. On a micro level, the Chinese government can upgrade the practical treatment of black and odorous waters by controlling the wastewater, managing the source, restoring ecological environment, etc.…”

Informing decisions in agent-based models — A mobile update

“…Additionally, though they rarely included detailed cues to behavior or decisions, the statistical power of representative surveys and censuses, coupled with the large number of variables they include, can make them useful in statistical models of decisions, such as by Kniveton et al (2011Kniveton et al ( , 2012 who used a long-term livelihoods survey from Burkina Faso to build a statistical model of the probability an individual might choose to migrate, based on household and environmental conditions. Beyond these more common secondary datasets, my search also turned up other applications of secondary data to ABM, such as the use of point source emissions data used to characterize firm behavior in a water pollution market model (Zhang et al, 2013), or the use of shipping and vessel databases to characterize maritime activity in the Indian Ocean for a model of shipping and piracy (Van ek et al, 2013).…”

The latent causal chain of industrial water pollution in China

“…Dong et al (2011) discovered in their research that environmental complaints from local citizen may contribute to efficient allocation of environmental inspection resources by regulators, and hence, they proposed to strengthen basic education and encourage environmental information disclosure to support more people to involve in environmental surveillance. Zhang et al (2013b) highlighted the importance of designing water pollution trading policy to alleviate the severe river pollution in China. Wang and Yu (2014) gave a review on researches about protection of sources of drinking water in China, and they believed that water quality standards and high technology as well as legislation should be the focus of future search.…”