Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 20
1 Game theory: A useful approach for policy evaluation in natural resources and the environment......Page 22
2 Game theory and the development of resource management policy: The case of international fisheries......Page 33
3 Traditional grazing rights in sub-Saharan Africa and the role of policy......Page 63
4 Application of partition function games to the management of straddling fish stocks......Page 86
5 To negotiate or to game theorize: Evaluating water allocation mechanisms in the Kat basin, South Africa......Page 106
6 Cooperation and equity in the river-sharing problem......Page 133
7 Negotiating over the allocation of water resources: The strategic importance of bargaining structure......Page 153
8 Rural–urban water transfers with applications to the US–Mexico border region......Page 176
9 WAS-guided cooperation in water management: Coalitions and gains......Page 202
10 Experimental insights into the efficiency of alternative water management institutions......Page 230
11 A fair tariff system for water management......Page 257
12 Game-theoretic modeling of water allocation regimes applied to the Yellow River basin in China......Page 269
13 Contributions of game theory to the analysis of consumer boycotts......Page 287
14 How does environment awareness arise?: An evolutionary approach......Page 299
15 Effects of alternative CDM baseline schemes under an imperfectly competitive market structure......Page 328
Index......Page 356