Mianabadi Hojjat, Mostert Erik, Zarghami Mahdi, van de Giesen Nick
Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, 51664 Tabriz, Iran.
J Environ Manage. 2014 Nov 1;144:152-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.05.018. Epub 2014 Jun 16.
Growing competition over water resources has caused political disputes among stakeholders and has brought conflict resolution in the focus of negotiation processes. In these cases, bankruptcy rules for redistributing an asset when it is not sufficient to meet all claims could be applied. In this paper, we develop a new bankruptcy rule for water resources problems that considers agents' contribution to the total resources as well as their claims, which is in accordance with the UN Watercourses Convention (1997), as important factors for reallocation. Using the Euphrates River and a hypothetical case from the literature as examples, the new rule is compared with four alternative rules. The results show that the novel solution is potentially more powerful to help solving conflicts over river sharing problems.
水资源竞争日益激烈，引发了利益相关者之间的政治争端，并使冲突解决成为谈判进程的焦点。在这些情况下，可以应用破产规则，即在资产不足以满足所有债权时对资产进行重新分配。在本文中，我们针对水资源问题制定了一项新的破产规则，该规则将各主体对总资源的贡献及其债权视为重新分配的重要因素，这与《联合国水道公约》（1997年）一致。以幼发拉底河和文献中的一个假设案例为例，将新规则与其他四项替代规则进行了比较。结果表明，新的解决方案在帮助解决河流共享问题的冲突方面可能更有效力。
