Commitment vs. noncommitment behaviors in natural resource conflicts: A case study of groundwater resources

Mabel Tidball (), Julia de Frutos Cachorro and Guiomar Martin-Herran
Additional contact information
Mabel Tidball: CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - UM - Université de Montpellier
Julia de Frutos Cachorro: UB - Universitat de Barcelona

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Abstract: We examine the problem of natural resource exploitation when an exceptional extraction of a resource (groundwater) is needed that is devoted to a different use than its regular use. The study applies a two-stage Stackelberg game to examine the strategic behavior of players who compete for water, with the leader (public resource manager), with varying degrees of environmental and public health concerns; the manager of the new (nonregular) resource use, who only intervenes in the second stage of the game; and the follower, who is a regular (agricultural) resource user. We examine the crucial resource of groundwater, introducing two types of Stackelberg equilibria (open-loop and feedback) that can arise depending on agents' commitment behavior, comparing the extraction behaviors of the leader and agricultural user for the two equilibria and the effects on the final state of the resource and agents' profits. Unexpectedly, we demonstrate that situations can occur in which noncommitment strategies could be more favorable than commitment strategies in terms of the final aquifer stock and the regular user's profits.

Date: 2024
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env and nep-gth
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04335915v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in Economic Modelling, 2024, 132

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04335915v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Commitment vs. noncommitment behaviors in natural resource conflicts: A case study of groundwater resources (2024)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04335915

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().