Community-Based Water Governance under Integrated Water Resources Management Reform in Contemporary Rural China

Abstract

Coordinated approaches are necessary for solving the major environmental and sustainability problems facing the developing as well as developed regions of the world. There is therefore a need to have a better understanding of the multidisciplinary interrelationships between sustainable development, human health and the environment. Specific emphasis was placed on globalization and sustainable growth, bioethics and poverty, organizational performance and sustainability, environmental management and individual progress, human and ecosystem health, and water resources and recycling. © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.