Water rights trading: a new approach to dealing with trans-boundary water conflicts in river basins

Tian, Guiliang; Liu, Jining; Li, Xiaoyü; Li, Ye-qin; Yin, Hao

doi:10.2166/wp.2020.180

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“…Different approaches proposed, such as the human rights-based approach and Transboundary Water Interaction Nexus (TWINS) concept, still face challenges, mainly arising from socio-political and technical limitations [160,166,167]. The game theory has been introduced into water resources [168,169].…”

Section: New Approaches Of Negotiation and Governancementioning

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“…The game theory has been introduced into water resources [168,169]. Tian et al [167] developed a framework to deal with inter-regional water resource conflicts in China (Figure 7). They established an evolutionary game based on game theory between the two sides of water rights trading.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They provided a new solution to solve water disputes in transboundary regions by establishing water markets and water rights trading. [160,166,167]. The game theory has been introduced into water resources [168,169].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Water Conflicts: From Ancient to Modern Times and in the Future

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Since prehistoric times, water conflicts have occurred as a result of a wide range of tensions and/or violence, which have rarely taken the form of traditional warfare waged over water resources alone. Instead, water has historically been a (re)source of tension and a factor in conflicts that start for other reasons. In some cases, water was used directly as a weapon through its ability to cause damage through deprivation or erosion or water resources of enemy populations and their armies. However, water conflicts, both past and present, arise for several reasons; including territorial disputes, fight for resources, and strategic advantage. The main reasons of water conflicts are usually delimitation of boundaries, waterlogging (e.g., dams and lakes), diversion of rivers flow, running water, food, and political distresses. In recent decades, the number of human casualties caused by water conflicts is more than that of natural disasters, indicating the importance of emerging trends on water wars in the world. This paper presents arguments, fights, discourses, and conflicts around water from ancient times to the present. This diachronic survey attempts to provide water governance alternatives for the current and future.

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“…Meanwhile, Water Policy (top right quadrant) has more heavily published articles related to Topic 16-Water Security and Supply such as papers on water privatization and consumption in urban centers of Ghana [51], regional water security issues in China [52], and transboundary water conflicts in river basins [53]. However, it also frequently publishes papers related to Topic 22-Climatic Factors and Water including, for example, research on drought management and water governance in South Africa [54], climate readiness for the provision of water services in Sydney [55], and climate change implications for Sao Paulo [56].…”

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The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Using Natural Language Processing to Uncover Patterns in Academic Publishing

Faulkner

Lambert

Wilson

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After years of advocacy and international negotiation, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted to officially recognize a stand-alone human right to water and sanitation on 28 July 2010. Since, academic scholarship has continued to grow in an effort to understand the implications of the codification of this human right. Yet, with this growth, it has become impractical if not impossible for scholars to keep up with the advancement of academic knowledge or to make sense of it in a systematic way. In short, to date, we know very little about the trends in the literature as they have unfolded over the past thirty years and the topics to which scholars have devoted significant attention within the broader field, particularly over time. This is an important area of inquiry, as developing a comprehensive understanding of where prior literature has focused and where it appears to be going offers scholars an opportunity to identify areas in need of refinement and/or increased attention. Given the practicalities of reading thousands of research papers each year, this project utilizes natural language processing (NLP) to identify topics and trends in academic literature on the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). NLP provides the opportunity to digest large quantities of text data through machine learning, culminating with descriptive information on trends and topics in the field since 1990. The results of this exercise show that the research related to the human right to water and sanitation has grown exponentially, particularly over the last decade, illustrates the multidisciplinary nature of the literature, and demonstrates the diversity of topics in the field.

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“…It was assumed that water pollution is taxed by government regulations. Tian et al 14 applied evolutionary game theory to assess the transboundary water conflicts between two countries that have water-trading rights. Their results demonstrated the application of water-rights trading and the water market to solving water conflicts.…”

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Analysis of long-term strategies of riparian countries in transboundary river basins

Mirzaei-Nodoushan

Bozorg‐Haddad

Singh

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Transboundary river basins give rise to complex water-sharing decision making that can be analyzed as a game in the sense of dynamic game theory, as done in this work. The sharing of transboundary water resources depends on the long-term shifting interactions between upstream and downstream countries, which has received limited research attention in the past. The water-sharing strategy of a riparian country depends on the strategies of other countries over time. This paper presents an evolutionary game method to analyze the long-term water-sharing strategies of countries encompassing transboundary river basins over time. The method analyzes the evolutionary strategies of riparian countries and investigates evolutionary stable strategies (ESSs) considering the payoff matrix. The evolutionary game method is applied to a river basin shared by three countries assuming two types of benefits and one type of cost to countries as decision variables of a game that reflects water use, economic and political gains, and socio-economic losses of countries. Numerical examples illustrate the strategies resulting from the evolutionary game processes and the role of several parameters on the interaction between riparian countries. The countries’ strategies are analyzed for several levels of benefits and costs, and the convergence of the strategies to a stable point is assessed. Results demonstrate the role that the upstream country’s potential benefits and the cost of conflict (i.e., non-cooperation) to other countries has on reaching a stable point in the game. This work’s results show the potential benefit to the upstream country under cooperative strategy must exceed its benefits from water use under non-cooperative strategy to gain the full stable cooperation of downstream countries. This work provides a method to resolve water-sharing strategies by countries sharing transboundary river basins and to evaluate the implications of cooperation or non-cooperation.

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Water rights trading: a new approach to dealing with trans-boundary water conflicts in river basins

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Water Conflicts: From Ancient to Modern Times and in the Future

Water Conflicts: From Ancient to Modern Times and in the Future

The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Using Natural Language Processing to Uncover Patterns in Academic Publishing

Analysis of long-term strategies of riparian countries in transboundary river basins

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