Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment

Ariel Dinar is a Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Director Water Science and Policy Center, University of California, Riverside, USA. He was formerly Lead Economist of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, USA. His research focuses on international water and cooperation, approaches to stable water allocation agreements, water and climate change, economics of water quantity/quality, and economic aspects of policy interventions and institutional reforms. His most recent undertaking is the RFF book series "Issues in Water Resource Policy" that aims to produce publications on contemporary water policy issues in various countries and states. Jose Albiac is a Research Fellow at CITA, an agricultural research centre of the Government of Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain.Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science of the University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain.

• 1. Introduction: Game Theory - A Useful Approach for Policy Evaluation in Natural Resource and Environment?  2. Game Theory and the Development of Resource Management Policy: The Case of International Fisheries  3. Traditional Grazing Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Role of Policy  4. Application of Partition Function Games to the Management of Straddling Fish Stocks  5. To Negotiate or to Game Theorize: Evaluating Water Allocation Mechanisms in the Kat Basin, South Africa  6. Cooperation and Equity in the River Sharing Problem  7. Negotiation over the Allocation of Water Resources: The Strategic Importance of Bargaining Structure  8. Rural-Urban Water Transfers with Applications to the U.S./Mexico Border Region  9. WAS-guided Cooperation in Water Management: Coalitions and Gains  10. Experimental Insights into the Efficiency of Alternative Water Management Institutions  11. A Fair Tariff System for Water Management  12. Game-Theoretic Modeling of Water Allocation Regimes Applied to the Yellow River Basin in China  13. Contributions of Game Theory to the Analysis of Consumer Boycotts  14. How does Environment Awareness Arise?: An Evolutionary Approach  15. Effects of Alternative CDM Baseline Schemes Under an Imperfectly Competitive Market Structure