Print Email Facebook Twitter Operationalising stability and fairness in transboundary water resource allocations Title Operationalising stability and fairness in transboundary water resource allocations Author Sarva, Sahiti (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Kwakkel, J.H. (mentor) Doorn, N. (graduation committee) Zatarain Salazar, J. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Engineering and Policy Analysis Date 2021-08-24 Abstract This research identifies a method to evaluate the fairness and stability of existing Pareto optimal policies in the context of transboundary water resource allocations. Using the case study of the Susquehanna river basin, the fairness of efficient policies was evaluated using utilitarianism, egalitarianism and prioritarianism. Stability was evaluated using stability concepts from game theory. The results showed that policies that balance utilitarianism, egalitarianism and prioritarainism can be identified. A status quo bias was seen in non-cooperative games highlighting the cost of getting a large number of actors to agree on a cooperative policy. Fallback bargaining identified an outcome that can potentially be stable in cooperative settings. This outcome also adheres to utilitarian ideas. The method proposed in the study explicitly considers efficiency, fairness and stability as criteria for water allocations and places the research in the context of distributive justice in transboundary water sharing. Subject water allocationDistributive JusticefairnessstabilityTransboundary basinsPareto-optimal To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:683a47b3-89fd-4ebf-8ba6-1a2fe6c15b65 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Sahiti Sarva Files PDF MSc_thesis_SSarva.pdf 5.8 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:683a47b3-89fd-4ebf-8ba6-1a2fe6c15b65/datastream/OBJ/view