Resolving Trans-jurisdictional Water Conflicts by the Nash Bargaining Method: A Case Study in Zhangweinan Canal Basin in North China

Xiqin Wang, Yuan Zhang (), Yong Zeng and Changming Liu

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2013, vol. 27, issue 5, 1235-1247

Abstract: Trans-jurisdictional conflict in both water quantity and quality is a general concern in large river basins. In this paper, the relative utility function combined with the asymmetric Nash bargaining method was established to analyze the trans-jurisdictional conflict between water quantity and water quality in the Zhangweinan Canal Basin in China. The basin was divided into four conflict stakeholders, namely, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Shandong Provinces, based on administrative unit. The water usage and pollutant discharge scheme for multiple stakeholders was optimized using the established model to satisfy the environmental flow and water quality objectives at the identified conflict sections. The results indicated that the total water consumption was reduced from 4.38 × 10 9 m 3 in 2007 to 1.97 × 10 9 m 3 , and that the allowable COD and NH 3 -N discharged into the river was less than 3.8 × 10 4 t and 4.3 × 10 3 t, respectively. About 81.1 % of COD and 76.1 % of NH 3 -N should be further reduced compared with the values in 2007. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: Trans-jurisdiction conflict; Asymmetric Nash bargaining theory; Zhangweinan Canal Basin; Water quantity; Water quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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