Document de travail

Fixed Water Sharing Agreements Sustainable to Drought

Stefan Ambec, Ariel Dinar et Daene McKinney

Résumé

By signing a fixed water sharing agreement (FWSA), countries voluntarily commit to release a fixed amount of river water in exchange for an agreed compensation. We examine the vulnerability of such commitments to reduced water ows. Among all FWSAs that are acceptable to riparian countries, we find out the one which is sustainable to the most severe drought scenarios. The so-called upstream incremental FWSA assigns to each country its marginal contribution to its followers in the river. Its mirror image, the downstream incremental FWSA, is not sustainable to reduced ow at the source. We apply our analysis to the Aral Sea basin agreement.

Codes JEL

  • D74: Conflict • Conflict Resolution • Alliances
  • Q25: Water
  • Q28: Government Policy
  • Q54: Climate • Natural Disasters • Global Warming

Remplacé par

Stefan Ambec, Ariel Dinar et Daene McKinney, « Water Sharing Agreements Sustainable to Reduced Flows », Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 66, novembre 2013, p. 639–655.

Référence

Stefan Ambec, Ariel Dinar et Daene McKinney, « Fixed Water Sharing Agreements Sustainable to Drought », TSE Working Paper, n° 11-270, octobre 2011.

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Publié dans

TSE Working Paper, n° 11-270, octobre 2011