Abstract
This chapter is an introduction to the entire book. It starts by discussing the state of the global water crisis which raises challenges to enhance water governance from both international and Chinese perspectives. It briefly explains why the book is important, what it aims to contribute to the existing scholarship, and how the content was researched. The chapter also provides an overview of the book.
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- 1.
World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), Water for People, Water for Life, the United Nations World Water Development Report 2003, Paris: UNESCO and Berghahn Books, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/water/wwap/wwdr/ (Accessed November 17, 2014), 76.
- 2.
Ibid.
- 3.
WWAP, Water, a Shared Responsibility, the United Nations World Water Development Report 2, 2006, Paris: UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/water/wwap/wwdr/ (Accessed November 17, 2014), 121.
- 4.
Ibid.
- 5.
Ibid, 125.
- 6.
WWAP, Water for People, Water for Life, 10.
- 7.
WWAP, Water, a Shared Responsibility, 47.
- 8.
Ibid.
- 9.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Change and Water, IPCC Technical Report VI. Geneva: IPCC, 2008.
- 10.
Ibid.
- 11.
Ariel Dinar et al., Water Allocation Mechanisms : Principles and Examples, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 1779, 1997, 3.
- 12.
Terry L. Anderson, “The Water Crisis and the New Resources Economics,” In Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment, ed. Terry L. Anderson (San Francisco, California; Cambridge: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research; Mass, Ballinger Pub. Co., 1983), 5.
- 13.
C. J. Perry, Michael Rock, and D. Seckler, Water as an Economic Good: A Solution, or a Problem? International Irrigation Management Institute Research Paper, 14, 1997, 7.
- 14.
Dinar et al., Water Allocation Mechanisms, 7.
- 15.
Ibid. Also see Anderson, “The Water Crisis and the New Resources Economics,” 5–6.
- 16.
Anderson, “The Water Crisis and the New Resources Economics,” 5–6.
- 17.
Ibid, 5.
- 18.
K. William Easter and Qiuqiong Huang, eds. Water Markets for the 21st Century: What Have We Learned? (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014), Preface.
- 19.
Syed Z. Sadeque, “Nature’s Bounty or Scarce Commodity: Competition and Consensus over Groundwater Use in Rural Bangladesh.” In Negotiating Water Rights, ed. Bryan R. Bruns and Ruth Meinzen-Dick (London: ITDG Publishing, 2000), 269–291.
- 20.
Perry et al., Water as an Economic Good: A Solution, or a Problem? 7.
- 21.
2012 China State Council Opinions on the Implementation of the Strictest Water Resources Management System, State Council Document No.3, 2012, http://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2012-02/16/content_2067664.htm (accessed October 24, 2016).
- 22.
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Table 3.5: Freshwater, 2014, http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/3.5 (accessed October 24, 2016).
- 23.
- 24.
WWAP, Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk, the United Nations World Water Development Report 4, 2012, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/water/wwap/wwdr/wwdr4-2012/ (accessed October 24, 2016), 122.
- 25.
Rex Victor Cruz et al., “Asia,” In Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ed. Martin Parry et al. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 469–506.
- 26.
Shucheng Wang, Resource-oriented Water Management: Towards Harmonious Coexistence between Man and Nature, 2nd ed. (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing; Beijing : WaterPower Press, 2006), 37.
- 27.
Min Jiang, “Water Rights Trading in China ’s Water Policy Reform: Current Practices and Future Development,” Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008, Adelaide: Engineers Australia , 2008, 1831–1842.
- 28.
Wang, Resource-oriented Water Management, 37.
- 29.
2012 China State Council Opinions on the Implementation of the Strictest Water Resources Management System.
- 30.
Ibid.
- 31.
Easter and Huang, eds. Water Markets for the 21st Century, 13.
- 32.
Terry L. Anderson et al., Tapping Water Markets (New York: Routledge, 2012), Preface.
- 33.
See Easter and Huang, eds. Water Markets for the 21st Century, 46. Also see Debra Townsend and Odette Adams, “Water Rights and Trading in Australia ,” Australian Environmental Law Digest, Sep 2016: 3–4. http://0-search.informit.com.au.library.vu.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=316367663218575;res=IELHSS (accessed May 3, 2017).
- 34.
Anderson et al., Tapping Water Markets, 26.
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Jiang, M. (2018). Introduction. In: Towards Tradable Water Rights. Global Issues in Water Policy, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67087-4_1
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