PhD defense Liping Dai

Liping Dai defended her PhD thesis successfully on Monday the 6th of July 2015. A short summary of her dissertation:

Along with the economic transition, water pollution in China is developing from traditional pollution with conventional pollutants to a compound type of pollution with new and old pollutants interacting with each other, and from a pollution-dominant industry to the coexistence of industrial pollution and agricultural pollution. Traditional water management schemes are not able to meet these challenges. Water resource management, in order to adapt to the new situation, is therefore being reformed. Liping Dai applies a three-step diagnostic method and a meta-framework of governance to approach these transitional issues of water resource management in China. The purposes of her study are to provide policy makers and scholars with a clear background for understanding the regulatory instruments with regard to water resource management in China and to contribute towards improving Chinese policy and legal framework for water resource management.