Research About Ecological Compensation Mechanism Of Shiyang River Basin

Ecological compensation is an important way of protecting the environment at home and abroad in recent decades. Ecological compensation provides compensation for the residents who lose chance of development because of environmental protection, punishes these people who damage environment, and charges these people who gain interests from environment, in order to promote people's awareness of ecological protection, and improve the level of protection of the ecological environment. Ecological compensation mechanism is a complex system including ecological, economic and legal, formatting in the process of ecological compensation.Shiyang River Basin was once prosperity because of the ancient Silk Road, and is the important grain production bases in Gansu province. As the deterioration of the ecological environment in recent years, the Shiyang River Basin has been attracted extra attention. Especially Premier Wen Jiabao wrote that "Minqin must not be allowed to become the second Lop Nur" on July 31, 2001. When the author participated in the topic of the research about legal issues of water resource protection and utilization in Shiyang River shared by Water Department of Gansu Province and Lanzhou University Law School, this paper was based on the investigation of the Shiyang River Basin, the government documents about ecological protection of the Shiyang River Basin, and the mature experience in ecological compensation at home and abroad.This paper was based on a legal view, and focused on legal ways to tackle the problems in the ecological compensation mechanism of Shiyang River Basin. This paper began with a theoretical perspective on the ecological compensation and the ecological compensation mechanism including the concept, purpose and principles. Then this paper introduced the Shiyang River Basin, the ecological plight faced by the Shiyang River Basin and the necessity to construct of ecological compensation mechanism. And then this paper discussed the major issues about ecological compensation mechanism in Shiyang River Basin. In final this paper made suggestions about Shiyang River Basin ecological compensation mechanism, which is the Shiyang River Basin ecological compensation mechanism concept. This concept was composed by the premise mechanisms, the basic mechanisms, and the special mechanisms, which were Interrelated and complementary. The premise mechanism include to enhance ecological compensation awareness and to speed up the ecological compensation legislation. The basic mechanisms include policy, management, finance, marketing, law. The special mechanisms are basin area compensation system and the system of special area for ecology.