Research On River Basin Ecological Compensation Legal System

Recently, with the rapid development of China’s economy, problems of waterecology and environment become the bottleneck of the social and economicdevelopments, even severely destroy the national ecologic safety, and obstruct socialand economic comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development. For thesustainable use of water resources, China should carry out institutional creations, withthe guidance of sustainable development. Meanwhile, river basin ecologicalcompensation legal system can provide the possible path for such creations.With the analyses of river basin ecological compensation theories all over theworld, the thesis expounds the definition, legal nature, legal relationship andproblems of China’s river basin ecological compensation comprehensively and deeply;demonstrates the construction of China’s river basin ecological compensationsystematically; enhances the promulgation of China’s river basin ecologicalcompensation legal system to protect the water environment.