Laozi (500 BC): Great Virtue Is Like Water
老子：上善若水
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BASIN RIGHTS APPROACNH
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The basin rights approach might provide an alternative idea and methodology for establishing a starting point for international river negotiations. The approach takes into account both history and hydrology by reserving human water rights in advance. Additionally, the inclusion of an ecological water requirement as a prerequisite for sustainable use divides the responsibility among all the basin states. This consideration can help to balance the rights and obligations between nature and humankind as well as between upstream and downstream users. If the negotiating parties share several types of basic data such as discharge, runoff contribution, and population, it would be very easy for them to figure out each country’s water quota and make decisions on whether building massive infrastructure in one basin state would exceed its water quota. The water rights, nature rights, and human rights for 276 international river basins, using an older TFDD delineation of basin boundaries, has been calculated an is available.
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Curator
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Wang, Zhijian, male, born in December 1975, Ph.D. in international relations in 2010 and postdoctoral in water conservancy engineering in 2013. He is now an associate professor at the Law School of Hehai University, an adjunct professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and a part-time lawyer at Jiangsu Zhonglv Law Firm.

Job situation:

1996-1998: Reporter of Nanjing TV News Center;

From 2001-present: Teacher of the Law School of Hehai University;

2009, 2013, 2014, 2016: Visiting Scholar of Oregon State University School of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS), Water and Watershed Institute, 

                                    Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database Project (TFDD);

From 2015 to present: Adjunct Professor of the  Johns Hopkins University- Nanjing University Center for Chinese and Amereican Studies;

2019: Visiting Professor, Brace Water Resources Center, McGill University, Canada.

Research direction:

International law and international relations, law of the sea

International River Law, International Water Politics, International Water Resources Management

International Water Rights, Basin Rights 

Lecture course:

Hohai University (Undergraduate): International Public Law, Law of the Sea, International River Politics and Law

HHU (Graduate students): Topics on International Law, Topics on International Rivers and the Law of the Sea

HNC (International Graduate students): Water Resources and Water Environment, International Hydro-politics

Research topic:

Preside over the post-funded projects of the National Social Science Foundation:

21FGJB010: International river management from the perspective of Security of water resource;

16FFX002: Study on the Application of Marine Customary Law in Disputes in the South China Sea;

13FFX039: Water hegemony, security order and institutional construction - Research on the international river hydro-political complex;

11FFX043: Theory and Practice of International River Law.


Received the sixth batch of special funding from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Law in 2013), project name: "International River Water Rights Research"; Funding Number: 2013T60492. Results: International River Basin Rights Database, website: http://www.basinrights.com.


Undertook the topics commissioned by the Institute of Marine Development Strategy of the Ministry of Natural Resources:

"International Law of the Sea and the South China Sea Disputes" (2015); 

"Achipalogic System and its International Practice" (2012);

"Evaluation of the Legal Basis of the Claim of Rights of Neighbouring Countries in the South China Sea" (2011); etc.


Participated in the major project of the Nationl Social Science Foundation:

"Research on the Cooperation and Development Mechanism of Water Resources between China and Surrounding Countries" (2011), 

"Research on Cross-border Water Resources Confirmation and Distribution Method and Guarantee System" (2017)

 National Social Science Fund General Project "Application of International Law of the Sea in Disputes in the South China Sea and its Bureau Limited Research (2013).


Personal monograph:

2011 International River and Regional Security, Hohai University Press;

2012 Research on International River Law, Law Press;

2015 Water Hegemony, Safety Order and Institutional Construction - Research on the International River hydro-political Complex, Social Science Literature Publishing House;

2017 Application of the Principle of Reciprocity of Rights and Obligations in the Utilization of International River Water Body - and the Construction of International River Water Rights, Hohai University Press;

2019 International River Legal System, Hohai University Press.


Awards:

Excellent Paper Award of the 2006 Jiangsu Philosophy and Social Science Academic Conference;

In 2013, his personal monograph "International Rivers and Regional Security" won the Excellent Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jiangsu Universities;

In 2016, he was nominated for the "Young Jurist of Jiangsu Province";

Second prize in the general group of the 2016 Hohai University Lecture Competition;

Excellent online teaching teachers during the epidemic prevention and control period of Hohai University in 2020;

First prize for the excellent paper of the Environmental Resources Law Research Association of Jiangsu Law Society in 2021;

2021 Hehai University Teaching Achievement Award (ranked fourth);

The second prize of the 17th Excellent Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Jiangsu Province in 2023 (ranked seventh).


Academic part-time:

Member of the Water Law Research Association of the Chinese Water Conservancy Society

Member of the Asia-Pacific Development Research Center of Nanjing University


Contact information:

Room 811, Administrative Building, Hohai University, Jiangning District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province ( 211100)

Email: lawaid@163.com lawaid@hhu.edu.cn zwang278@jh.edu