Coordinated Research Among Multiple Stakeholders in Water Diversion Projects Under the Guarantee of Water Quality: Based on the Perspective of Sustainable Supply Chain

Meng Liu, Xiaodan Xi and Hongcheng Gan ()
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Meng Liu: University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Xiaodan Xi: Henan University of Technology
Hongcheng Gan: University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2025, vol. 39, issue 13, No 28, 7297-7322

Abstract: Abstract Cross-regional water diversion project serves as a crucial means to optimize water resources allocation. However, the conflicting interests among multiple parties pose challenges to its sustainable management. This paper employs stakeholder theory to systematically sort out and classify relevant stakeholder and their interest demands, categorizing multiple stakeholder into three parties: the government, enterprises, and the public. For the first time, from the perspective of a sustainable supply chain, it incorporates environmental benefits (such as water quality improvement and ecological restoration benefits) and social benefits (such as public health improvement) into the interest function, constructs a three-party evolutionary game model of "government-enterprise-public", takes the Middle Route Project of the South-to-North Water Diversion as the research object, and uses MATLAB for numerical simulation to quantify the evolutionary paths of different strategy combinations. The study reveals that factors including government regulation costs, enterprise transformation costs, and public supervision benefits significantly influence the decision-making of the three parties. Compared with traditional studies, this research breaks through the single economic benefit analysis framework, innovatively constructs a multidimensional theoretical analysis system, provides management decision-making methods with both theoretical depth and practical value for Cross-regional Water Diversion Project, and enriches the basic theoretical system in this field.

Keywords: Water diversion project; Stakeholders; Sustainable supply chain; Game theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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