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　　《国际水资源发展期刊》（International Journal Of Water Resources Development，IJWRD）是水资源管理领域的知名国际学术期刊(SCI/SSCI收录)，主要刊载全球各地水资源管理方面的前沿学术成果，旨在改进水资源的利用方式和促进水资源研究成果的分享。近日，《国际水资源发展期刊》2020年第36卷第4期出版了由294俄罗斯专享会王亚华教授、香港科技大学公共政策研究院吴逊教授和新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院塞西莉娅·托塔哈达博士主编的特刊《中国水管理与政策的转型与创新》（“Innovative and Transformative Water Policies and Management in China”）。
　　本期特刊汇集当代中国水资源管理和政策的前沿问题和最佳实践研究成果，围绕水管理的创新与转型，及水政策的新发展和新挑战，提供系统深入的分析和见解。特刊共收录了国内外水管理研究领域知名专家学者撰写10篇优秀研究成果，主题包括城市水管理、农业用水管理、地下水管理、河长制、水价与水市场、水生态补偿、水投资管理等，阐述了中国经济社会转型过程中的多方面探索和多种创新路径。
　　294俄罗斯专享会王亚华教授等为特刊撰写的专文“中国水政策和水管理的转型与创新”指出，高效的水资源管理是经济和社会可持续发展的关键，中国在转变水治理模式以应对水危机、促进经济发展方面取得了重要进展。尽管如此，中国仍面临着严峻的困难和挑战，迫切需要通过更好了解社会环境变化的影响、新的管理方式的效果以及政策干预的影响来改善中国的水资源管理。未来中国需要进一步改善政府、市场和民间社会之间的关系：一是政府在水治理中发挥主导作用的同时，要积极为市场和社会组织的发展建立健全制度；二是积极引入市场机制，有效利用水权市场、灵活水价机制、废水处理市场和污水再利用市场；三是积极吸纳社会组织参与到水治理过程之中，让各种用户组织成为政府和个体间的沟通桥梁。
　　本次特刊的编写和出版主要由国家社会科学基金重大课题（15ZDB164）提供资助，特刊封面印有国家社会科学基金和294俄罗斯专享会的标识。

The International Journal of Water Resources Development (IJWRD) is one of the leading academic journals in the field of water resources management. Recently, IJWRD July 2020, Volume 36, Issue 4 published a special issue of "Innovative and Transformative Water Policies and Management in China" edited by Prof. Yahua Wang from School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Prof. Xun Wu from Institute for Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Dr. Cecilia Tortajada from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

This special issue aims to critically and comprehensively analyze important innovations in managerial approaches, as well as new developments and associated challenges in water policies, by bringing together cutting-edge research and best practices on water resources management in contemporary China., and finally accepted 10 outstanding research papers, covering diverse fields including: urban water governance, water use control system, River Chief system, PPP model in water sector, water eco-compensation mechanisms, groundwater irrigation management, water rights trading, and freshwater use in China.

As Prof. Yahua Wang from the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University pointed out in the review article of this special issue, effective and efficient water resources management is key to sustainable economic and social development. China has made substantial progress in transforming water governance to respond to water crises and to support rapid economic development. In spite of this, China still faces considerable difficulties and challenges, and that there is an urgent need to improve water resources management in China by better understanding the implications of changing socio-economic circumstances, the effectiveness of new management practices, and the impacts of policy interventions. Looking to the future, some broad principles can be used to guide the transformation towards improved relationships among government, market and civil society for water governance. First, as the government plays a leading role, it should work harder to build institutions to cultivate market and social organizations for water governance. Second, market mechanisms should be actively introduced, and water-related markets can be encouraged to be established and promoted, including water rights markets, wastewater treatment markets and sewage reuse markets. Third, the participation of social organizations should be introduced into all aspects of water governance, and the establishment of various user associations should be encouraged, so that they can serve as organizational bridges, connecting the government and the people.

The development and publication of this special issue were mainly funded by the National Social Sciences Foundation of China (15ZDB164).

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Content of this special issue

·Innovative and transformative water policy and management in China
Yahua Wang, Xun Wu and Cecilia Tortajada
·A portfolio of China’s urban water governance sector: administrative system, coordination problems and policy evolution
Shaofeng Jia, Dalong Li and Raymond Yu Wang
·Water use control system in China
Dajun Shen, Ali Guna and Xiaodan He
·River chief system as a collaborative water governance approach in China
Yahua Wang and Xiangning Chen
·Public–private partnerships in the water sector in China: a comparative analysis
Neng Qian, Schuyler House, Alfred M. Wu and Xun Wu
·The Chinese characteristics of payments for ecosystem services: a conceptual analysis of water eco-compensation mechanisms
Raymond Yu Wang, Cho Nam Ng and Xiaoxing Qi
·Groundwater irrigation and management in northern China: status, trends, and challenges
Jinxia Wang, Yuting Jiang, Huimin Wang, Qiuqiong Huang and Hongbo Deng
·How to promote eff ective irrigation pricing reform in northern China? Insights from the Taocheng District
Sicheng Chen, Yahua Wang and Jesper Svensson
·Joint analysis of water rights trading and water-saving management contracts in China
Hui Guo, Xiangdong Chen, Jiahong Liu, Hongjiang Zhang and Jesper Svensson
·Freshwater use in China: relations to economic development and natural water resources availability
Siao Sun, Chao Bao and Chuanglin Fang

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