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REPORT Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk REPORT 2013/37 Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China CAO Guozhi, TIAN Chao, JIA Qian, DONG Jingqi, ZHOU You, YU Fang, Haakon Vennemo Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China Vista Analysis AS 1 Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China Document Details Vista Analysis AS Report number 2013/37 Title Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China ISBN 978-82-8126-133-4 Author Cao Gouzhi et al Finished date September 23, 2013 Project Managers Haakon Vennemo, Yu Fang Quality Control Rasmus Reinvang Client Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning Access Public Published pdf Key words Environmental risk, environmental planning, China Vista Analysis AS 2 Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China Preface This report surveys the baseline situation with respect to planning for environmental risk mitigation in China, with particular focus on two provinces (Jiangsu and Guizhou Province) and two cities (Anshun City in Guizhou Province and Tongling City in Anhui Province). The purpose is to record the situation at the initiation of the project Planning for Cost-effective Environmental Risk Reduction that is carried out by Vista Analysis and Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP) on behalf of the Ministry of Environmental Protection in China. The report is mainly written by a team from CAEP led by Cao Gouzhi, with inputs from Rasmus Reinvang and Haakon Vennemo at Vista Analysis, and with baseline data and survey contributions from local environmental authorities in Jiangsu, Guizhou, Anshun and Tongling. We also would like to express our sincere appreciation to Foreign Economic Cooperation Centre, Department of Planning and Finance, Environmental Emergency Response and Accident Investigation Centre, Department of International Cooperation of Ministry of Environmental Protection for their support of this baseline report. 23 September 2013 Haakon Vennemo Project Manager Vista Analysis AS Vista Analysis AS 3 Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China Content Preface ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 About the project .......................................................................................................................................... 20 1 Target Groups of the project ........................................................................................................... 21 1.1 List of target groups ................................................................................................................. 21 1.1.1 Local EPBs of pilot places .................................................................................................. 21 1.1.2 Ministry of Environmental Protection ......................................................................... 22 1.1.3 Other institutions.................................................................................................................. 26 1.2 The business relationship between various target groups ....................................... 27 2 Research and Practice at the State Level ................................................................................... 28 2.1 Cognition of the international experience of environment planning and risk management .............................................................................................................................................. 28 2.1.1 Environmental planning .................................................................................................... 28 2.1.2 Environment risk management ...................................................................................... 30 2.2 Current status of environmental planning, risk assessment and management 36 2.2.1 Environmental planning and management ................................................................ 36 2.2.2 Environment risk assessment and management ..................................................... 38 2.2.3 Applications of GAINS model and CGE model ........................................................... 43 3 Research and Practice at Provincial and City Level ............................................................... 46 3.1 Jiangsu Province ........................................................................................................................ 46 3.1.1 Environmental risk introduction and its characteristic analysis ....................... 46 3.1.2 Present situation of environmental risk management in Jiangsu Province .. 52 3.1.3 Environmental risk management work faces a huge challenge and opportunity ........................................................................................................................................... 61 3.2 Guizhou Province ...................................................................................................................... 66 3.2.1 Environmental risk introduction and its characteristic analysis ....................... 66 Vista Analysis AS 4 Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China 3.2.2 Current situation of environmental risk management in Guizhou Province 69 3.2.3 Challenges and opportunities .......................................................................................... 74 3.3 Tongling in Anhui ...................................................................................................................... 79 3.3.1 Main environmental risk problems for Tongling City ............................................ 79 3.3.2 Related works already done ............................................................................................. 80 3.3.3 Problems and need .............................................................................................................. 85 3.4 Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 88 4 Questionnaire survey result ........................................................................................................... 89 4.1 Statistical result ......................................................................................................................... 89 4.2 Main conclusion .......................................................................................................................115 5 Conclusion ...........................................................................................................................................117 5.1 Many efforts have been done in response to solve environmental risk problems in China ......................................................................................................................................................117 5.2 There are still many problems in national and local environmental risk management ............................................................................................................................................118 5.3 Improving technical methods application is critical to solve the current environmental risk reduction planning and management problems ...............................119 Appendix A ....................................................................................................................................................120 Tables: Tabell 3.1 Environmental Safety Information Quantity for Major Industries(2010) 50 Vista Analysis AS 5 Baseline Study of Environment Planning and Risk Management in China Figures: Figure 1.1 Target groups ...................................................................................................................... 21 Figure 3.1 Number of Major Environmental Risk Source Enterprises in Provinces in China 48 Figure 3.2 Number of Major Environmental Risk Source Enterprises in Municipalities Directly Controlled by Jiangsu Provincial Government ....................................................... 49 Figure 4.1 Completed questionnaires ........................................................................................... 89 Figure 4.2 Number at the provincial level ................................................................................... 90 Figure 4.3 Number of respondents with job responsibility for environmental planning 90 Figure 4.4 Number of respondents engaged in emergency response .............................. 91 Figure 4.5 Application of CBA ........................................................................................................... 92 Figure 4.6 Familiarity with CBA ...................................................................................................... 92 Figure 4.7 Familiarity with CBA (MEP&CAEP) .......................................................................... 93 Figure 4.8 Familiarity with CBA (provincial EPBs) .................................................................. 93 Figure 4.9 Familiarity with CBA (municipal EPBs) .................................................................. 94 Figure 4.10 Application of SEA ........................................................................................................... 95 Figure 4.11 Familiarity of
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