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A GAME‐THEORETIC APPROACH TO ACID RAIN ABATEMENT: CONFLICT ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD ALLOCATION 1
Author(s) -
Okada Norio,
Mikami Yoshiko
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1992.tb03161.x
Subject(s) - acid rain , game theory , conflict resolution , pollution , resolution (logic) , environmental science , policy analysis , operations research , environmental economics , natural resource economics , computer science , economics , political science , mathematics , mathematical economics , chemistry , ecology , law , artificial intelligence , biology , organic chemistry
The detrimental impacts of acid rain have become widely publicized, but effective and equitable methods to mitigate the acid rain problem remain to be found. This paper focuses on conflicts involved in allocation of the total emission loads to be reduced to respective pollution sources of acid rain, and proposes a game‐theory approach to the resolution of the conflict. With an example abstracted from a hypothetical case study in the United States of America and Canada, a systematic analysis is performed and policy implications of the results examined to assess the applicability of the proposed model.