Legal methods of mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Chinese water management / Xiangbai He.
2016
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Title
Legal methods of mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Chinese water management / Xiangbai He.
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
KNQ3130.3 .H4 2016
Former Call Number
Ch.P 959 H34 2016
ISBN
9811004021
9789811004025
9789811004025
Description
xvi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)932096851
Summary
"This book addresses why, whether and how the existing legal framework on water management in China could make climate change adaptation a mainstream issue. The book uses a table to illustrate the distinctions and similarities between IWRM and water-centered adaptation to analyze the possibilities of mainstreaming adaptation. The new water-planning processes and EIA are also illustrated in the form of figures showing the differences after factoring in adaptation considerations. Interviews with water managers to obtain their perception and attitudes towards climate change adaptation offer new perspectives for readers. The adaptation mainstreaming approach, which finds a way to balance various interests and tasks, will arouse the interests of those readers who argue that climate change is only one of the issues challenging water management, and that poverty reduction, environmental protection and living standard improvement are even more important. Readers will also be interested to discover that the adaptation mainstreaming approach could be applied in water management institutions such as water planning and EIA. In addition, the book offers a clear explanation of the challenges of adaptation to the existing water-related legal framework from a theoretical perspective, and provides theoretical and practical recommendations"--Back cover.
Note
"This book is funded by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education Project (2015SJB531) and project funded by China Postdoctoral Foundation (2015M581847)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
1.
Introduction
1
1.1.
Water Resources and Water Problems in China
1
1.2.
Climate Change: a Context, a Threat and an Opportunity
6
1.3.
When Water Meets Climate Change
10
References
16
2.
Developing Sustainable Water Legal Framework in China: Prepare for Adaptation
21
2.1.
Theoretical Introduction of the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
22
2.2.
China's Legal Framework on the IWRM
28
2.2.1.
Water Laws at the National Level
28
2.2.2.
Specific Regulations on River Basin Management
32
2.3.
Institutional Settings of the IWRM
35
2.3.1.
Vertical Institutional Settings
35
2.3.2.
Horizontal Institutional Settings
40
2.4.
Practices of the IWRM in China
44
2.4.1.
Status of IWRM in China
44
2.4.2.
Implementation of the IWRM in China
46
2.4.3.
Transition to a Resource-Oriented Mentality
50
2.4.4.
Transition to Water Demand Management
52
2.5.
Conclusions and Recommendations
57
2.5.1.
Conclusions
57
2.5.2.
Recommendations
59
References
63
3.
Legal Framework of China's Water-Related Climate Change Adaptation
69
3.1.
Establishing an Adaptation-Oriented Framework for Water
70
3.1.1.
Understanding the Necessity of Adaptation
70
3.1.2.
Adaptation Versus Mitigation as a Legal Problem
72
3.2.
China's Legal Responses to Climate Change Adaptation
76
3.2.1.
Adaptation in the Context of Polices and Plans
76
3.2.2.
Adaptation in the Context of a Legal Framework
78
3.2.3.
Institutional Settings of Climate Change Adaptation
86
3.2.4.
Adaptation Responses of China's Water Management
90
3.3.
Assessment---Ambitious Progress or Conservative Steps?
93
3.3.1.
Low Awareness of Adaptation
94
3.3.2.
Over-Reliance on Engineering and Technological Approaches
95
3.3.3.
Marginal Role of Environmental Authorities in Adaptation
97
3.3.4.
Lack of Institutionalized Governance at the Local Level
99
3.4.
Conclusion
100
References
101
4.
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in China's Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
107
4.1.
Theoretical Analysis of Mainstreaming Adaptation in the Development Process
108
4.1.1.
Aligning Climate Change Adaptation with Sustainable Development
108
4.1.2.
Justifying the Legal Method of Adaptation Mainstreaming
112
4.1.3.
Examining the Status of Adaptation Mainstreaming in China's Water Management
116
4.2.
Identifying Legal Challenges of Mainstreaming Adaptation in the IWRM
118
4.2.1.
Challenges to Water Laws
119
4.2.2.
Challenges to Water Institutional Framework
126
4.2.3.
Challenges to Extant Public Participation Mechanism
130
4.2.4.
Challenges to the Capacity of IWRM in Managing Adaptation Issues
139
4.3.
Analyzing the Potential to Mainstream Climate Change Adaptation in the IWRM
141
4.3.1.
Bridging the Gap Between Stationarity and Uncertainty
144
4.3.2.
Integrating an Integrated Thinking with Locality-Based Actions
146
4.3.3.
Developing Collaborative Mechanisms Between Various Levels of Government
148
4.3.4.
Understanding the Climate Change Threats to Water Security
149
4.3.5.
Identifying the Potential of IWRM in Mainstreaming Adaptation
150
4.4.
Conclusion
153
References
155
5.
Setting the Legal Enabling Environment for Adaptation Mainstreaming in the IWRM
163
5.1.
Rethinking the Principle of Sustainable Development
165
5.1.1.
Reviewing the Principle of Sustainable Development for Adaptation
165
5.1.2.
Developing the Principle of Sustainable Development in the Adaptation Mainstreaming Process
168
5.2.
Institutionalizing the Precautionary Principle
170
5.2.1.
Understanding the Precautionary Principle in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation
171
5.2.2.
Application of the Precautionary Principle in China
175
5.2.3.
Applying the Precautionary Principle in the Adaptation Mainstreaming Process
176
5.3.
Advancing the Principle of Public Participation
180
5.3.1.
Shifting the Role of the Public in the Decision-Making Process
180
5.3.2.
Improving Public Access to Climate Change Information
182
5.3.3.
Recognizing the Role of NGOs
189
5.3.4.
Developing Community-Based Participation
191
5.4.
Developing a Principle of Social Justice
194
5.4.1.
Understanding the Social Justice Concern of Climate Change
195
5.4.2.
Analyzing the Social Justice Implication of Adaptation
196
5.4.3.
Applying the Social Justice Principle for Adaptation Mainstreaming in the IWRM
197
5.5.
Developing Resilient Institutional Settings
201
5.5.1.
Rules of Developing Resilient Institutional Settings
201
5.5.2.
Increasing Local Government's Role in the Adaptation Mainstreaming Process
203
5.5.3.
Engaging Environmental Agencies in the Adaptation Mainstreaming Process
209
5.5.4.
Increasing the RBCs' Institutional Adaptive Capacity
211
5.6.
Conclusion
213
References
215
6.
Recommendations for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in China's IWRM---Examples of Two Key Entry Points
223
6.1.
Key Entry Point One: Mainstreaming Adaptation in Water Planning
225
6.1.1.
China's Concerns on Integrating Climate Change Impacts with Water Planning
227
6.1.2.
Developing Adaptive Water Management for Water Planning
229
6.1.3.
Identifying the Entry Points of Mainstreaming Adaptation in the IWRM Planning Process
233
6.2.
Key Entry Point Two: Mainstreaming Adaptation in Water-Related Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
237
6.2.1.
EIA: A Preventative Approach to Protect the Environment from Climatic Harms
239
6.2.2.
Identifying the Difficulties of Mainstreaming Adaptation in the EIA
241
6.2.3.
Approaches of Mainstreaming Adaptation in the EIA
243
6.2.4.
Difficulties and Opportunities of Implementing Adaptation Mainstreaming in the EIA
254
6.2.5.
Concluding Remarks
257
References
258
7.
Final Conclusion and the Way Forward
263
References
265