| Related citation: | Vitus Tankpa,Li Wang,Raphael Ane Atanga,Xiaomeng Guo,Alfred Awotwi.Assessment of Institutional and Legal Framework for Sustainable LandUse Management Practices in Ashi River Watershed, China[J].Journal of Harbin Institute Of Technology(New Series),2021,28(6):23-36.DOI:10.11916/j.issn.1005-9113.20022. |
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| Author Name | Affiliation | | Vitus Tankpa | State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China | | Li Wang | State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China | | Raphael Ane Atanga | Department of Tourism, School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa | | Xiaomeng Guo | State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China | | Alfred Awotwi | Department of Environmental Science, University for Development Studies UDS,Navrongo, Ghana |
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| Nonpoint source (NPS) pollutants resulting from land degradation (LD) have been a key influential factor on the deterioration of water quality. Consequently, sustainable land use management (SLM) practices have been employed to reduce the impacts of LD globally. However, the adoption of SLM practices is often not effective to protect water resources despite its capability of improving water quality. Empirically, evidence shows that activities of land users directly influence SLM practices and NPS pollution of water resources in watersheds, but invariably this has not been clearly understood. Understanding how SLM practices adoption could prevent NPS pollution of water resources in watershed is a necessity. Therefore, the primary aim of the investigation is to comprehend the status of SLM practices with the legal framework supporting the adoption of such practices in the Ashi River watershed. A survey instrument involving structured questionnaire was implemented to collect data. A randomly based lottery method was applied to sample information from 150 land users in two control units’ communities. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. This research revealed that there is low adoption of SLM practices of the study site. The low adoption is due to weak capacity building and enforcement of regulations in the watershed. Occupation and age of the residents are the strongest predictors of SLM adoption rate. Residents connected with farming are more sensitive to the adoption status of SLM. It is our recommendation that policy makers should ensure capacity building, and enforcement of regulations can specifically compel farmers to adopt SLM technologies. This approach would complement other strategies to solve the NPS pollution issue of Ashi River. |
| Key words: sustainable land use management institutional framework legal framework adoption land users Ashi River watershed |
| DOI：10.11916/j.issn.1005-9113.20022 |
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| 中国阿什河流域可持续土地利用管理实践的制度和法律框架评估 Vitus Tankpa1, 王立1, Raphael Ane Atanga2, 郭晓朦 1 ,Alfred Awotwi3 （1.哈尔滨工业大学 环境工程学院 城市水资源与水环境国家重点实验室 哈尔滨150090； 2.约翰内斯堡大学 旅游与酒店学院，南非 约翰内斯堡； 3.发展研究大学 环境科学系 ，加纳 纳夫龙戈） 中文说明：土地退化（LD）引起的非点源污染（NPS）是导致农业为主型小流域水质恶化的关键影响因素。目前全球正在推行可持续土地利用管理（SLM）方法以减少LD的影响。国际经验表明，土地使用者的行为直接影响流域的可持续土地管理实践和NP污染态势，洞悉土地使用者与SLM实施方略之间的内在关系才能有效防止NPS对流域水资源的污染。本研究的重点是通过法律法规约束有效性来探讨在阿什河流域实施SLM的方法和可行性。通过结构化的调查问卷来收集实地数据，采用随机抽样法从两个控制单位社区的150个土地使用者那里收集数据进行统计分析。结果显示，阿什流域SLM方法的实施率较低，这与当地建设能力和法规执行力度密切相关。其中，居民的职业和年龄与SLM采用率相关性最高，与农业有关的居民对SLM的采用状况更为敏感。建议通过职能部门加强决策和推行法规的力度，以促使农民推行SLM技术，将有助于解决阿什河NPS污染问题。 关键词：可持续土地利用管理； 体制；法律框架；土地利用；阿什河流域 |
