Economic total maximum daily load for watershed-based pollutant trading

Zaidi, Arjumand; deMonsabert, Sharon

doi:10.1007/s11356-014-3867-7

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“…In general, water trading is often deemed as a market approach completely . However, it is a quasi‐public goods, which cannot be allocated by market completely . In this study, two types of trading mode have been formulated in section 2 which would conclude trading without restricted policy scheme (based on market completely) and that with restricted policy (trading with political regulation) .…”

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“…[31,32] However, it is a quasi-public goods, which cannot be allocated by market completely. [33,34] In this study, two types of trading mode have been formulated in section 2 which would conclude trading without restricted policy scheme (based on market completely) and that with restricted policy (trading with political regulation). [35] The comparison of system benefits with the nonrestricted and restricted policy schemes (α ¼ 0 and 1) have been displayed in Figure S1, Supporting Information.…”

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Sustainable Water‐Resources Allocation Through a Trading‐Oriented Mechanism Under Uncertainty in an Arid Region

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Huang

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In this study, a dual‐interval two‐stage stochastic programming (DTSP) approach is developed for planning water resources through a market‐trading‐oriented mechanism under uncertainty. The DTSP method is used for policy analysis of water trading in the Kaidu‐kongque River Basin with the efficient and sustainable manners to relieve the pressures of economic development and population growth in northwestern China. The obtained results reveals that a market‐trading‐oriented mechanism under the adjustment/regulation by water managers would be a sustainable/effective manner to allocate water resources against the market failure. Meanwhile, the trade‐off between governmental regulation and market behavior has generated a more efficient trading mode with overall consideration of factors such as food safety, drinking safety, environmental protection, and regional development in a watershed system, which could bring about a number of beneficial impacts on regional water resources development. Moreover, the DTSP method is also appropriate for discriminating varied cases associated with various levels of economic influences since the penalties could be exercised with the recourses actions against any infeasibility.

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Sustainable Water‐Resources Allocation Through a Trading‐Oriented Mechanism Under Uncertainty in an Arid Region

Zeng

Huang

et al. 2018

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“…However, it is also complicated and has many uncertainties, such as the random nature of hydrodynamic conditions and meteorological processes, the variability in the transport of the pollutants in the flow, the transmission time, the physicochemical processes, and the dynamic interactions between the pollutant loadings and the receiving water bodies (Zaidi and deMonsabert 2015). Conflicts often arise when different water users in each subarea compete for limited waste load allocations, such as the contradiction between the regional committee and subarea managers, and between each of the subarea managers.…”

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Waste load equilibrium allocation: a soft path for coping with deteriorating water systems

Yao

Zhang

et al. 2016

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Waste load allocation is always regarded as another efficient approach comparing with the technology-based approach to improve the water quality. This paper proposes a bi-level multi-objective optimization model for optimally allocating the waste load of a river basin incorporating some concerns (i) the allocation equity from the regional authority, (ii) maximal benefits from the subareas along the river, and (iii) the Stackelberg-Nash-Cournot equilibrium strategy between the upper and lower decision makers. Especially, a novel Gini coefficient for measuring the load allocation equity is defined by considering the economic level and waste water quantity. The applicability and effectiveness of the proposed model is demonstrated through a practical case based on the Tuojiang River, which is a typical basin with diversified industrial waste discharges in western China. Some operational suggestions are developed to assist the decision makers' cope with deteriorating water systems.

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Development of a fuzzy-stochastic programming with Green Z-score criterion method for planning water resources systems with a trading mechanism

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Huang

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This study developed a fuzzy-stochastic programming with Green Z-score criterion (FSGZ) method for water resources allocation and water quality management with a trading-mechanism (WAQT) under uncertainties. FSGZ can handle uncertainties expressed as probability distributions, and it can also quantify objective/subjective fuzziness in the decision-making process. Risk-averse attitudes and robustness coefficient are joined to express the relationship between the expected target and outcome under various risk preferences of decision makers and systemic robustness. The developed method is applied to a real-world case of WAQT in the Kaidu-Kongque River Basin in northwest China, where an effective mechanism (e.g., market trading) to simultaneously confront severely diminished water availability and degraded water quality is required. Results of water transaction amounts, water allocation patterns, pollution mitigation schemes, and system benefits under various scenarios are analyzed, which indicate that a trading-mechanism is a more sustainable method to manage water-environment crisis in the study region. Additionally, consideration of anthropogenic (e.g., a risk-averse attitude) and systemic factors (e.g., the robustness coefficient) can support the generation of a robust plan associated with risk control for WAQT when uncertainty is present. These findings assist local policy and decision makers to gain insights into water-environment capacity planning to balance the basin's social and economic growth with protecting the region's ecosystems.

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Economic total maximum daily load for watershed-based pollutant trading

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Sustainable Water‐Resources Allocation Through a Trading‐Oriented Mechanism Under Uncertainty in an Arid Region

Sustainable Water‐Resources Allocation Through a Trading‐Oriented Mechanism Under Uncertainty in an Arid Region

Waste load equilibrium allocation: a soft path for coping with deteriorating water systems

Development of a fuzzy-stochastic programming with Green Z-score criterion method for planning water resources systems with a trading mechanism

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