Considering the issues of water scarcity, environment deterioration, and unreasonable allocation resources in urban area Yellow River Basin, this paper introduces human–water harmony theory to regional resources. Based on an analysis structural characteristics resource system, harmonious (HWRA) model—which includes three sub-systems (i.e., service ecological environmental economic social system...

The scarcity of water resources and supply resources limitation, have caused an increasing gap between water supply and demand specially in recent decades in almost all regions of the globe. One of the best known solutions proposed by the economists is using the different water pricing approaches thereby obtaining the optimal allocation and social justice. To this purpose, this paper uses the p...

The allocation, or re-allocation, of water to achieve environmental sustainability in farming communities can be a source of considerable conflict. “What’s fair” when sharing water between different agents and the environment becomes paramount in people’s decision making. Issues such as self interest; efficient uses of water; business investments; viable communities and prior rights to water al...

When it comes to conflicts over the allocation of freshwater supply, who bears the burden, at what cost, and at what scale are important questions. While science can contribute to resolution of certain water allocation disputes, more scientific certainty will not resolve most water allocation controversies. Water stress in Africa and in theMiddle EastÑparticularly in theNile BasinÑis likely to ...

Irrigated agriculture in Idaho faces a decline in the availability of water and increasing costs for that available water. The demand for recreational and environmental urban water use continues to grow. Adopting improved irrigation technology is one of the few remaining alternatives that agriculture can use to address this problem. Development of large-scale water projects to enhance water sup...

The tolerance allocation problem has been studied in the literature for decades, usually using mathematical programming (or) heuristic optimization approaches. Elegant tools for minimum cost tolerance allocation have been developed over several decades but still there is no specified tool to find the total cost with respect to machining cost and asymmetric quality loss functions. Objective of t...

On the basis of the pre-research of index system of province initial water rights allocation system, as well as the complexity and differences of the allocation system, the index system of province initial water rights allocation system in this paper is comprehensively designed first, and the index framework divided into three layers of target, criteria and index angles is established. Taking a...

So far many optimization models based on Nash Bargaining Theory associated with reservoir operation have been developed. Most of them have aimed to provide practical and efficient solutions for water allocation in order to alleviate conflicts among water users. These models can be discussed from two viewpoints: (i) having a discrete nature; and (ii) working on an annual basis. Although discrete...