Version 1
: Received: 4 June 2024 / Approved: 4 June 2024 / Online: 4 June 2024 (12:36:06 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 26 August 2024 / Approved: 27 August 2024 / Online: 28 August 2024 (12:34:12 CEST)
How to cite:
Dolowitz, D. The Rise and Transfer of the River Chief System: A Historical review of a Chinese Phenomenon and its potential to transfer to the global community. Preprints2024, 2024060184. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0184.v1
Dolowitz, D. The Rise and Transfer of the River Chief System: A Historical review of a Chinese Phenomenon and its potential to transfer to the global community. Preprints 2024, 2024060184. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0184.v1
Dolowitz, D. The Rise and Transfer of the River Chief System: A Historical review of a Chinese Phenomenon and its potential to transfer to the global community. Preprints2024, 2024060184. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0184.v1
APA Style
Dolowitz, D. (2024). The Rise and Transfer of the River Chief System: A Historical review of a Chinese Phenomenon and its potential to transfer to the global community. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0184.v1
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Dolowitz, D. 2024 "The Rise and Transfer of the River Chief System: A Historical review of a Chinese Phenomenon and its potential to transfer to the global community" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0184.v1
Abstract
Since the turn of the 21st Century Chian has enacted a range of policies to improve its water ecosystem. Some of these measures include (but are not limited to) the creation of Seven River Conservancy Commissions to engage in river basin management and the development (combination and recombination) of series of ministries and departments to address environmental pollution and degradation. The most recent attempt to address the nations polluted waterways and lakes occurred in December 2016, when the General Office of the Chinese Central Committee and the State Council issued TheOptions on Full Implementation of the River Chief System (RCS) Across the Country. The intent behind Options was not only to fully implemented he river chief system but to bring the nations drinking water supply quality to no worse than category III. Based on the Options Erik Solheim, UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, commented ‘I'm convinced that what I have seen in Pujiang County and Anji County will be the future of China, even the future of the world’ (cited in Xianqiang 2021, 435; emphasis added). It is to this observation that the reminder of this article will be directed.
Keywords
River Chief, Water Management, Policy Transfer, Learning China
Subject
Social Sciences, Government
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
