Politics and Governance in Water Pollution Prevention in China

Liping Dai is Researcher at the Chinese Public Administration Research Center, School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, and at the Utrecht Center for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

• 1. Chapter 1 Introduction.- 2. Chapter 2 Water Quality Knowledge and Water Policy Discourse in China.- 3. Chapter 3 Public Participation in Water Governance in China.- 4. Chapter 4 China’s Path to a Green Water Law.- 5. Chapter 5 Exploring China’s approach to implementing ‘eco-compensation’ schemes – The Lake Tai Watershed as case study.- 6. Chapter 6 Implementing the water goals—the river chief mechanism in China.- 7. Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion.