Arbeitspapier
Damming Trans-boundary Rivers: A Welfare Analysis of Conflict and Cooperation
Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local environments. Dam projects may further exacerbate already existing problems in trans-boundary rivers. We consider three scenarios of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues its own interests, (2) efficient cooperation along the river and (3) partial cooperation among neighboring countries. We conduct cost-benefit analyses for these scenarios incorporating dam projects and their externalities. We demonstrate our approach for the Mekong River incorporating expert hydrological knowledge regarding installed hydropower capacity and dam location instead of the standard economic assumptions of such costs. Our results show that cooperation between Laos and Cambodia internalizes the negative impacts of dam construction in Laos on fishery in Cambodia, and Laos refrains from building some planned dams. Our results also hint that the 1995 Mekong agreement among Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam is internally stable.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 16-090/II
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
Welfare Economics: General
Renewable Resources and Conservation: General
Environmental Economics: General
General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
- Thema
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Trans-boundary river basin management
Institutional factors
Dams
Externalities
Welfare analysis
Conflict and cooperation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zeng, Yuyu
Houba, Harold
Dinar, Ariel
Marence, Miroslav
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (wo)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Zeng, Yuyu
- Houba, Harold
- Dinar, Ariel
- Marence, Miroslav
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2016
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