Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Edited by Nick Hanley
University of Stirling, UK
First published 2008
by Routledge
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
Contents
List of illustrations vii
List of contributors xi
Acknowledgments xvii
List of abbreviations and acronyms xix
1 Game theory: a useful approach for policy evaluation in
natural resources and the environment 1
JOSÉ ALBIAC, JOAQUÍN SÁNCHEZ-SORIANO, AND ARIEL DINAR
2 Game theory and the development of resource management
policy: the case of international fisheries 12
GORDON R. MUNRO
3 Traditional grazing rights in sub-Saharan Africa and the role
of policy 42
RACHAEL E. GOODHUE AND NANCY McCARTHY
4 Application of partition function games to the management
of straddling fish stocks 65
PEDRO PINTASSILGO AND MARKO LINDROOS
5 To negotiate or to game theorize: evaluating water allocation
mechanisms in the Kat basin, South Africa 85
ARIEL DINAR, STEFANO FAROLFI, FIORAVANTE PATRONE, AND
KATE ROWNTREE
6 Cooperation and equity in the river-sharing problem 112
STEFAN AMBEC AND LARS EHLERS
7 Negotiating over the allocation of water resources: the
strategic importance of bargaining structure 132
RACHAEL E. GOODHUE, GORDON C. RAUSSER, LEO K. SIMON,
AND SOPHIE THOYER
8 Rural–urban water transfers with applications to the
US–Mexico border region 155
GEORGE B. FRISVOLD AND KYLE J. EMERICK
9 WAS-guided cooperation in water management: coalitions
and gains 181
FRANKLIN M. FISHER AND ANNETTE T. HUBER-LEE
10 Experimental insights into the efficiency of alternative water
management institutions 209
AURORA GARCÍA-GALLEGO, NIKOLAOS GEORGANTZÍS, AND
PRAVEEN KUJAL
11 A fair tariff system for water management 236
RITA DE AGOSTINI AND VITO FRAGNELLI
12 Game-theoretic modeling of water allocation regimes applied
to the Yellow River basin in China 248
XIAOKAI LI, HAIFENG SHI, AND XUEYU LIN
13 Contributions of game theory to the analysis of consumer
boycotts 266
PHILIPPE DELACOTE
14 How does environment awareness arise? An evolutionary
approach 278
PALOMA ZAPATA-LILLO
15 Effects of alternative CDM baseline schemes under an
imperfectly competitive market structure 307
HARUO IMAI, JIRO AKITA, AND HIDENORI NIIZAWA
Index 335