Small Watershed Rehabilitation and Management in a Changing Economic and Policy Environment
China is considered one of the most seriously eroded countries in the world. The many causes of this degradation can be divided into natural, human-induced and root causes. The consequences of watershed degradation are severe and reach even beyond the country’s boundaries. Addressing this issue r...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26098356/small-watershed-rehabilitation-management-changing-economic-policy-environment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24052 |
| Summary: | China is considered one of the most seriously eroded countries in the world. The
many causes of this degradation can be divided into natural, human-induced and root causes.
The consequences of watershed degradation are severe and reach even beyond the country’s
boundaries. Addressing this issue requires a sustainable participatory and integrated watershed
management approach. The Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Projects, implemented by
the Ministry of Water Resources and co-financed by the World Bank has provided a model that
is widely recognized for its great success. This calls for a paradigm shifting from a sectoral,
top-down, technical and physical watershed intervention to a holistic, participatory, multisectoral
and inter-agency collaborative, and result based watershed development. |
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