TY - JOUR
T1 - Water and Pollution Discharge Permit Allocation to Agricultural Zones
T2 - Application of Game Theory and Min-Max Regret Analysis
AU - Poorsepahy-Samian, Hamed
AU - Kerachian, Reza
AU - Nikoo, Mohammad Reza
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the University of Tehran for this research under grant number 8102060/1/03.
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - This paper presents a new game theoretic methodology for water and discharge permit allocation to agricultural zones in shared rivers. The methodology consists of four main steps: (1) initial allocation of water rights and pollutant discharge permits, (2) forming possible coalitions and optimal water and discharge permit reallocation to water users participating in a coalition to increase their total net benefit, (3) equitable benefit reallocation by utilizing some solution concepts in cooperative game theory, and (4) identifying the best water and pollutant discharge permit allocation strategies by minimizing the maximum regret in the system. A new linear form for crop water production function is used in the objective function of the water allocation optimization models. To show the efficiency and applicability of the methodology, it is applied to the Karoon-Dez river system in Iran.
AB - This paper presents a new game theoretic methodology for water and discharge permit allocation to agricultural zones in shared rivers. The methodology consists of four main steps: (1) initial allocation of water rights and pollutant discharge permits, (2) forming possible coalitions and optimal water and discharge permit reallocation to water users participating in a coalition to increase their total net benefit, (3) equitable benefit reallocation by utilizing some solution concepts in cooperative game theory, and (4) identifying the best water and pollutant discharge permit allocation strategies by minimizing the maximum regret in the system. A new linear form for crop water production function is used in the objective function of the water allocation optimization models. To show the efficiency and applicability of the methodology, it is applied to the Karoon-Dez river system in Iran.
KW - Game theory
KW - Min-Max regret analysis
KW - Shared rivers
KW - The Karoon-Dez river system
KW - Water allocation
KW - Water quality
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U2 - 10.1007/s11269-012-0142-x
DO - 10.1007/s11269-012-0142-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867558715
SN - 0920-4741
VL - 26
SP - 4241
EP - 4257
JO - Water Resources Management
JF - Water Resources Management
IS - 14
ER -