Authors: Armaghan AbedElmdoust Reza Kerachian
Publish Date: 2012/11/28
Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 859-870
Abstract
When an interbasin water transfer is expected among basins with some level of unfriendliness or hostility ignoring political considerations which are generally not integrated in economic investigations can impede an integrated and efficient management In this paper a new economicpolitical methodology is proposed for the optimal and efficient allocation of water resources among water users in interbasin water transfer systems The proposed framework quantifies both the economic payoffs using an “nperson real fuzzy cooperative game” and the political formation prospect of any coalition using a Modified Political Accounting System MPAS The proposed economicpolitical methodology is applied to a large scale interbasin water allocation problem including water donor and receiving basins struggling with water scarcity The results show how including political considerations in the study may provide a more satisfactory solution compared to the just costeffective water allocations
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