Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management: Guidelines for Policy Excellence by Mike Young & Christine Esau

Author:Mike Young & Christine Esau [Young, Mike & Esau, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138884748
Goodreads: 26536897
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

Strategic policy integration

Guideline 8.7

When searching for ways to implement a transformational reform, begin by sending and repeating messages about the nature of the reform.

In 2011, the No. 1 Policy Document issued by the Communist Party Central Committee, stated a goal of enhancing and expanding water rights trading throughout China. This was also the first occasion that the water resource issue had been “raised to the level of a strategic and security issue” (Jia and Yan, 2012). In 2012, the State Council added to the momentum created by the No. 1 Policy Document by issuing a policy intended to cap total national water use by the year 2030.

This cap on total national water use, part of a set of policies known as the “Three Red Lines” (santiao hongxian), relies on the formulation of individual caps at the provincial and local government level. Once regulatory caps are in place and enforced then some form of water rights trading becomes essential unless, of course, the government is prepared to remove water rights from some users.

Although the details of the Three Red Lines policy are still being formulated by the Ministry of Water Resources, preliminary indications are that it will rely on the establishment of nested inter-municipal and inter-provincial trading mechanisms (Jia and Yan, 2012). Interviews indicate that province-level jurisdictions such as Ningxia, which have already implemented forms of water rights trading, face significant policy uncertainty as a result of the Three Red Lines regulations (Moore, 2014: 28-BJ). In particular, it is feared that much of the progress already made may have to be undone.

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