Assessing the Effect of the Chinese River Chief Policy for Water Pollution Control under Uncertainty-Using Chaohu Lake as a Case. 2020

Xia Xu, and Fengping Wu, and Lina Zhang, and Xin Gao
Business School of Hohai University, Nanjing 21100, China.

The River Chief Policy (RCP) is an innovative water resource management system in China aimed at managing water pollution and improving water quality. Though the RCP has been piloted in some river basins of China, few scholars have studied the effects of the policy. We built a differential game model under random interference factors to compare the water pollution in Chaohu Lake under the RCP and without the RCP, and we explored the conditions to ensure the effectiveness of the RCP. The results showed that: (1) The average effect of water pollution control under the RCP was greater than under non-RCP; (2) the higher the rewarding excellence and punishing inferiority coefficient ( θ ) was, the better the water pollution control effect under the RCP; (3) the greater the random interference coefficient ( σ ) and rewarding excellence and punishing inferiority coefficient ( θ ) were, the bigger the fluctuation of the water pollution control effect was; (4) when using the stochastic differential game, when σ ≤ 0.0403 , θ ≥ 0.0063 , or σ > 0.0403 , θ ≥ 0.268 , the RCP must be effective for water pollution control. Therefore, we can theoretically adjust the rewarding excellence and punishing inferiority coefficient ( θ ) and the random interference coefficient ( σ ) to ensure the effective implementation of the RCP and achieve the purpose of water pollution control.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002681 China A country spanning from central Asia to the Pacific Ocean. Inner Mongolia,Manchuria,People's Republic of China,Sinkiang,Mainland China
D004784 Environmental Monitoring The monitoring of the level of toxins, chemical pollutants, microbial contaminants, or other harmful substances in the environment (soil, air, and water), workplace, or in the bodies of people and animals present in that environment. Monitoring, Environmental,Environmental Surveillance,Surveillance, Environmental
D014874 Water Pollutants, Chemical Chemical compounds which pollute the water of rivers, streams, lakes, the sea, reservoirs, or other bodies of water. Chemical Water Pollutants,Landfill Leachate,Leachate, Landfill,Pollutants, Chemical Water
D014876 Water Pollution Contamination of bodies of water (such as LAKES; RIVERS; SEAS; and GROUNDWATER.) Thermal Water Pollution,Water Pollution, Thermal,Pollution, Thermal Water,Pollution, Water,Pollutions, Thermal Water,Pollutions, Water,Thermal Water Pollutions,Water Pollutions,Water Pollutions, Thermal
D045483 Rivers Large natural streams of FRESH WATER formed by converging tributaries and which empty into a body of water (lake or ocean). Streams,River,Stream
D060106 Lakes Inland bodies of still or slowly moving FRESH WATER or salt water, larger than a pond, and supplied by RIVERS and streams. Soda Lakes,Lake,Lakes, Soda
D060753 Water Quality A rating of a body of water based on measurable physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. Quality, Water
D035501 Uncertainty The condition in which reasonable knowledge regarding risks, benefits, or the future is not available.

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