A framework for adaptive management system of water resources facing climate change — A case of Huai river basin

Climate change has produced an effect on the balance between supply and demand of water resources. From the view of new institutional economics, the paper introduces a conceptual framework for adaptive management system of river basin water resources facing climate change. It describes the interaction of the water environment and human activity under the situation of climate change through the PSR (pressure-stress-response) model, and seeks for the approach to multistakeholder seamless cooperation in order to achieve interest equilibrium and the sustainable development of nature, economy and society. At last, taking the Huai river basin as an example, a decision support system of adaptive management of water resources is set up.