The Economics of Transboundary River Management

Ansink, Erik; Houba, Harold

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2505989

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“…In particular, water demand increases due to the continuous population growth, industrial development, and intensive agricultural production. This, along with the impacts of climate change in the last years, represent two of the main factors responsible for water scarcity in most of the border crossing river catchments [2,5]. Clearly, when water resources are not enough to meet the water demand, it is difficult to allocate water resources in transboundary river basins.…”

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A New Scenario-Based Framework for Conflict Resolution in Water Allocation in Transboundary Watersheds

Gorgoglione

Crisci

Kayser

et al. 2019

Water

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One of the main causes of water conflicts in transboundary watersheds all over the world is represented by the increasing water demand due to urban, industrial, and agricultural development. In this context, water scarcity plays a critical role since, during a drought period, water supply is not sufficient to cover the demand of all water uses. In this work, we have conceptualized and developed a new scenario-based framework able to improve the sustainability and equity of water allocation among two or more riparian countries. The proposed approach is in accordance with the United Nations Watercourses Convention. It considers a hydraulic/hydrologic model, a water-management model, and combines them with multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and what if scenario analysis (WISA). The suggested framework was applied to the transboundary watershed of Cuareim/Quaraí river (Uruguay/Brazil) to tackle a real water-sharing conflict. It resulted in being very flexible in exploring various policy options and test and quantifying them with different scenarios to reach an objective and impartial decision in a water-sharing issue. This framework can effectively be applied to any other transboundary watershed to resolve any possible conflict related to water-allocation/water-management matter.

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A New Scenario-Based Framework for Conflict Resolution in Water Allocation in Transboundary Watersheds

Gorgoglione

Crisci

Kayser

et al. 2019

Water

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“…Some recent contributions to this literature are by Ambec and Ehlers (2008), van den Brink et al (2012), Ambec et al (2013), Houba et al (2015) and Weikard (2012, 2015). Be ´al et al (2013) and Ansink and Houba (2015) provide surveys. Our analysis of water conflict shares its spatial model framework with this literature.…”

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River coalitions and water trade

Ansink

Gengenbach²,

Weikard

2017

Oxford Economic Papers

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We analyse coalition stability in a game with a spatial structure. We consider a set of agents located along a river who abstract scarce water for their own benefit. Agents may enter an agreement to mutually acknowledge property rights in river water as a prerequisite for water trade. We find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river cooperate and sign an agreement. Specifically, a complete market for river water may not emerge if there are four or more agents along the river. This result is driven by the spatial structure of our game, in which water that is to be delivered to a downstream coalition member via the territory of an intermediate singleton can be seized.

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“…The concept of fairness, then, can be embedded into a rule. The axiomatic approach is easily incorporated into negotiations because the axioms can be interpreted quite naturally as describing characteristics of a negotiation procedure (Ansink and Houba, 2014).…”

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Sharing water and benefits in transboundary river basins

Arjoon¹,

Tilmant²,

Herrmann³

2016

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Abstract. The equitable sharing of benefits in transboundary river basins is necessary to solve disputes among riparian countries and to reach a consensus on basin-wide development and management activities. Benefit sharing arrangements must be collaboratively developed to be perceived not only as efficient, but also as equitable in order to be considered acceptable to all riparian countries. The current literature mainly describes what is meant by the term benefit sharing in the the context of transboundary river basins and discusses this from a conceptual point of view, but falls short of providing practical, institutional arrangements that ensure maximum economic welfare as well as collaboratively developed methods for encouraging the equitable sharing of benefits. In this study we define an institutional arrangement that distributes welfare in a river basin by maximizing the economic benefits of water use and then sharing these benefits in an equitable manner using a method developed through stakeholder involvement.We describe a methodology in which (i) a hydrological model is used to allocate scarce water resources, in an economically efficient manner, to water users in a transboundary basin, (ii) water users are obliged to pay for water, and (iii) the total of these water charges are equitably redistributed as monetary compensation to users in an amount determined through the application of a sharing method developed by stakeholder input, thus based on a stakeholder vision of fairness, using an axiomatic approach. The whole system is overseen by a river basin authority. The methodology is applied to the Eastern Nile River basin as a case study. The described technique not only ensures economic efficiency, but may also lead to more equitable solutions in the sharing of benefits in transboundary river basins because the definition of the sharing rule is not in question, as would be the case if existing methods, such as game theory, were applied, with their inherent definitions of fairness.

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The Economics of Transboundary River Management

Cited by 6 publications

References 67 publications

A New Scenario-Based Framework for Conflict Resolution in Water Allocation in Transboundary Watersheds

A New Scenario-Based Framework for Conflict Resolution in Water Allocation in Transboundary Watersheds

River coalitions and water trade

Sharing water and benefits in transboundary river basins

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