Integrating Equality and Stability to Resolve Water Allocation Issues with a Multiobjective Bilevel Programming Model
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 142, Issue 7
Abstract
With rapid economic and social development, increasing water demands have made water scarcity a worldwide issue. Equitable, stable, and efficient water allocation, which includes water resources management and conflicting water demand management, needs a valid resolution. This paper develops a multiobjective bilevel model with the upper level reflecting the river basin authority’s allocation principle of equity and stability and the lower level aimed at ensuring maximal economic benefit effiency for each subarea. The Gini coefficient is introduced to seek equity in the water allocation strategies, a power index is applied to ensure stability in the water allocation solutions, and an economic efficiency function is designed to maximize the economic benefit efficiency in each subarea. The proposed multiobjective bilevel water allocation model is then applied to a case study in Qujiang River Basin in China, and demonstrates that the proposed model provides reasonable and practical water allocation strategies for river basin authorities.
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Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China (Grant No. 71301109), the Research Foundation of Ministry of Education for the Doctorpal Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20130181110063), the Western and Frontier Region Project of Humanity and Social Sciences Research, Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 13XJC630018), the Foundation for Fostering Young Scientists of Sichuan Province of China (Grant No. 2013DTPY0020), the Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71501137), the General Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2015M572480), and the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program of China Postdoctoral Council (Grant No. 20150028).
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Volume 142 • Issue 7 • July 2016
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Received: Jun 9, 2015
Accepted: Nov 18, 2015
Published online: Feb 17, 2016
Published in print: Jul 1, 2016
Discussion open until: Jul 17, 2016
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