Planning for Environmental Risk Reduction in China: Policy Recommendations

This report contains policy recommendations from the Sino-Norwegian cooperation project “Planning for cost-effective environmental risk reduction”, which began in 2013 and ends in 2016. The Project on “Planning for Cost-Effective Environmental Risk Reduction” is an extension of the phase I project “Improving the Effectiveness of Provincial Level Five Year Environmental Plans”. Based upon the current situation of environmental risk prevention in China and the main problems in the planning management, this project is designed to learn from foreign systems and methods in relevant fields, strengthen the top-down design, build a methodological framework for environmental risk prevention and planning and improve it through pilot application, offer training and learning of models and methods.