Abstract:

The protection of the resources and ecological environment of the transboundary rivers is of vital interests to the coastal nations.To establish the compensation principle of the beneficiaries of the transboundary rivers is theoretically significant and practically worthy in the international law of water resources.It is feasible because of the profound theoretical origins of law,economics and ethics,and a wealth of conservation practices in ecological & environmental resources of international and domestic interregional rivers.While sharing the ecological benefits,the coastal nations are obligated to bear the cost of the transboundary rivers ecological protection.The principle of beneficiary’s compensation should be implemented through a series of specific systems,including the foundation investigation system,the performance evaluation system, the cost allocation system,the benefit compensation system and the right relief system