The 2002 Water Law: its impacts on river basin management in China

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dajun Shen
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
River Basins ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Large River ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Management Participation ◽  
Management Institutions

Modern river basin management techniques are gaining popularity in China to effectively manage increasingly vulnerable water resources. China has several large river basins, with a variety of resource conditions and development challenges. River basins in China are facing aggravated water pollution, and development and management issues. In dealing with these issues, and in line with the evolution of modern concepts of river basin management, the 2002 Water Law of People's Republic of China for the first time defines river basin management institutions and functions, the legal status of river basin management organizations in China, and strengthens the administrative rights of river basin management organizations. However, although it is a good beginning, it is far from perfect. There are still several key issues which need to be addressed in the future, such as: function clarification, relationships between river basin management and jurisdictional management, participation, and coordination and integration of natural resources management.

A framework for integrated river basin management

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Burton
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Large River ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Integrated Diagnosis ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Extensive Documentation ◽  
Integrated River Basin Management ◽  
Management Project ◽  
Real Challenge

A framework for integrated river basin management was designed in consultation with African managers in 1990–1991. It was used as a training guide at five regional seminars organized in 1992–1993 by the Large River Management Project of the Francophone Summit (Paris). It begins with an extensive documentation phase to produce an integrated diagnosis of the river basin, moves into a planning phase and ends with an action and monitoring phase. Integrated river basin management is feasible but the real challenge lies with the lack of information and the need for a people-oriented approach.

scholarly journals Linking local vulnerability assessments to climatic hazard losses for river basin management

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung-Chih Hung ◽  
Yi-Chung Liu ◽  
Sung-Ying Chien
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Damage Model ◽  
River Basins ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Vulnerability Assessments

Abstract. To prepare for the potential impact of climate change and related hazards, many countries have implemented integrated river basin management programs. This has led to significant challenges for local authorities to improve their understanding of how the vulnerability factors are linked to losses in climatic disaster. This article aims to examine whether highly vulnerable areas experience significantly more damage at the river basin levels due to weather extreme events, and investigates the vulnerability and hazard impact factors determine losses in a disaster. Using three river basins in southern Taiwan that were seriously affected by Typhoon Morakot in 2009 as case studies, a novel methodology is proposed that combines a geographical information system (GIS) and a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) to evaluate and map composite vulnerability to climatic hazards across river basins. The linkages between the hazard impacts, vulnerability factors and disaster losses are then tested using a disaster damage model (DDM). The results of the vulnerability assessments demonstrate that almost all of the most vulnerable areas are situated in the regions of the middle, and upper reaches and some coastlines of the river basins. The losses and casualties due to typhoon are significantly affected by local vulnerability contexts and hazard impact factors. Finally, policy implications to minimize vulnerability and risk and for integrated river basin governance are suggested.

Integrated coastal zone and river basin management: a review of the literature, concepts and trends for decision makers

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 519-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
May A. Massoud ◽  
Mark D. Scrimshaw ◽  
John N. Lester
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
River Basins ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Zone Management

River management has frequently been associated with water supply and resource management, whereas coastal zone management has been more concerned with marine resource management and physical planning. Recognizing the close connection between the river and its catchment area has led to a more integrated approach to river basin management, taking into account water quality along with quantity. Similarly, recognition of the importance of integrated management of the coastal zone as a move towards achieving sustainable development, has led to integrated coastal zone management, with expansion of the domain in both landward and seaward directions. Considering the intrinsic link through physical and ecological structure as well as related physical and biological processes, any modification in a river basin will ultimately affect the coastal zone. Land-based activities, rivers, estuaries, coastal zones and marine environments are all inherently interlinked. As such, an integrated approach to the concomitant management of coastal zones and river basins is crucial. This paper provides an overview of various concepts, approaches and strategies to integrated coastal zone and river basin management. It points out lessons that could be learned from previous and ongoing projects. The paper provides a starting point for investigating how changes in land use and management of river basins might have an impact on the quality of river water and the corresponding coastal zone through scrutinization of management tools and implementation instruments. The paper identifies a requirement further to develop tools which will assist in evaluating current and future environmental conditions at a river/estuary/sea interface within a rigorous framework.

Going with the flow: river basins as the natural units for water management?

Water Policy ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (S2) ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Warner ◽  
Philippus Wester ◽  
Alex Bolding
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Basin Boundaries

This article engages with the currently hegemonic status of a triad of water policy prescriptions: multi-stakeholder platforms, integrated water resources management, and river basin management. A more reflective approach that opens up the choices underlying these concepts, and their limits, is needed. The choice to manage water on the basis of river basins is a political choice, and thus river basins are as much political units as they are natural units. The article concludes that the delineation of river basin boundaries, the structuring of stakeholder representation, and the creation of institutional arrangements for river basin management are political processes that revolve around matters of choice, and hence require democratic debate.

scholarly journals Impact of climate change on flood inundation in a tropical river basin in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kodai Yamamoto ◽  
Takahiro Sayama ◽  
Apip
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Bias Correction ◽  
River Basins ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Flood Inundation ◽  
Annual Maximum ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Tropical River ◽  
Sumatra Island

AbstractClimate change will have a significant impact on the water cycle and will lead to severe environmental problems and disasters in humid tropical river basins. Examples include river basins in Sumatra Island, Indonesia, where the coastal lowland areas are mostly composed of peatland that is a wetland environment initially sustained by flooding from rivers. Climate change may alter the frequency and magnitude of flood inundation in these lowland areas, disturbing the peatland environment and its carbon dynamics and damaging agricultural plantations. Consequently, projecting the extent of inundation due to future flooding events is considered important for river basin management. Using dynamically downscaled climate data obtained by the Non-Hydrostatic Regional Climate Model (NHRCM), the Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model was applied to the Batanghari River Basin (42,960 km2) in Sumatra Island, Indonesia, to project the extent of flood inundation in the latter part of the twenty-first century. In order to obtain reasonable estimates of the extent of future flood inundation, this study compared two bias correction methods: a Quantile Mapping (QM) method and a combination of QM and Variance Scaling (VS) methods. The results showed that the bias correction obtained by the QM method improved the simulated flow duration curve (FDC) obtained from the RRI model, which facilitated comparison with the simulated FDC using reference rainfall data. However, the high spatial variability observed in daily and 15-day rainfall data remained as the spatial variation bias, and this could not be resolved by simple QM bias correction alone. Consequently, the simulated extreme variables, such as annual maximum flood inundation volume, were overestimated compared to the reference data. By introducing QM-VS bias correction, the cumulative density functions of annual maximum discharge and inundation volumes were improved. The findings also showed that flooding will increase in this region; for example, the flood inundation volume corresponding to a 20-year return period will increase by 3.3 times. River basin management measures, such as land use regulations for plantations and wetland conservation, should therefore consider increases in flood depth and area, the extents of which under a future climate scenario are presented in this study.

Major issues in Large River Basin Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Author(s):  
Helmut Habersack ◽  
Marcel Liedermann ◽  
Michael Tritthart ◽  
Markus Eder
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Large River ◽  
Basin Management
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