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The previous chapters introduce the historical changes in China’s natural resource regulatory system, comparing and learning from the regulatory experiences of other countries. In this chapter, we focus on the content of natural resource accounting and pricing. There has been a longstanding debate on whether natural resources have value, and only in recent years has it been accepted that they do, but there is still no widespread consensus on how to measure them, meaning that natural resource asset valuation, accounting, and pricing remain unclear.
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Water environmental capacity refers to the maximum load of pollutants in the water body to meet the requirements of water environmental quality, and is also known as the water body load or pollution capacity.
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The 18 indicators in the Huzhou water resource balance sheet are per capita water resources, unit area water resources, per capita water supply, runoff coefficient, drought index, COD, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, potassium permanganate, population density, daily comprehensive water consumption per capita, irrigation area per capita, GDP per capita, urban water demand ratio, water consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP, water resource development utilization rate, and industrial water reuse utilization rate.
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Ding, T., Song, M. (2023). Accounting and Pricing Methods for Natural Resources. In: Natural Resource Regulation in China. Contributions to Public Administration and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5593-0_5
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