Project Environment Management: Practice of the Shanxi Wanxiazhai Yellow River Diversion Project

Author: Xie Qingtao
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: "Project Environmental Management" refers to the comprehensive responsibility of the project sponsor for the entire life cycle of an engineering project, conducting specialized environmental management throughout the process. The Wannianzhai Yellow River Diversion Project in Shanxi Province is a large-scale trans-basin water diversion project funded by the World Bank. During the preparation and implementation phases of the project, China pioneered the "Project Environmental Management" model, including preparing comprehensive environmental impact assessment reports and environmental management plans, establishing specialized environmental management institutions within the project management structure, implementing environmental supervision and management, and formulating and implementing operational environmental management plans. This represented a relatively comprehensive and beneficial exploration and practice in project environmental management, yielding significant results: reducing adverse environmental impacts to the lowest or acceptable level and effectively protecting the health of construction personnel and the public along the project route. This book provides a comprehensive summary of the environmental management practices of the Yellow River Diversion Project. We believe that drawing on the experience, lessons learned, research, and discussions from the Yellow River Diversion Project to effectively implement project environmental management in domestic projects and gradually establish such management in domestic projects will fill the gap in China's project environmental management, with profound and far-reaching significance.