Linking Freshwater to Coast Experience of Xiamen

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Linking Freshwater to CoastExperience of Xiamen

• Qinhua Fang, Ph.D.
• qhfang_at_xmu.edu.cn
• Coastal and Ocean Development Institute, Xiamen
  University, China
• Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy,
  University of Delaware, USA

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Xiamen and its coastal waters (sea area 390 km2
coast line 234 km)
Jiulong River
Taiwan Strait
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Longyan
Zhangzhou
Xiamen
Longyan ? Zhangzhou ? Xiamen
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Issues in Xiamen Seas

• Pollution
• Excessive nitrogen from watershed
• Waste
• Ecological disruption sedimentation

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more

• Water resources for Xiamen
• 1.5108 m3 over 80 of water consumption in
  Xiamen

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Efforts Taken (1) Integrated Coastal Management

• City-Alliance Xiamen Quanzhou Zhangzhou

• built up in 2003 (Longyan joined in 2006)
• aims at
• ---Infrastructure planning
• ---Integrated management of Jiulong River
  Watershed and Xiamen Seas
• ---Economic cooperation including tourism,
  technology, and agriculture

• Management Framework for the Jiulongjiang River
  Estuary

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Efforts Taken (2) Integrated Watershed
Management

• Watershed Environmental Planning --- with the
  objectives of marine environmental protection
• Regulations on Water Environmental Management on
  the level of Province government
• Watershed Environmental Planning regulate the
  environmental functions and quality standards
• Strategic environmental assessment
• Water Resources Development Planning (Hydropower
  Exploitation)
• Jiulong Watershed Eco-compensation Funding
  (Payment for Ecosystem Services)
• 40 m RMB / year (5.7 m/yr)

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Next

• Integrated Watershed and Coastal Planning
• Payment for Ecosystem Services

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