Negotiation Support for Cooperative Allocation of a Shared Water Resource: Application
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Abstract
Simulation experiments were conducted with the negotiation support system (NSS) presented by Kronaveter and Shamir to evaluate its efficacy in improving the negotiation process, and in getting to an agreed cooperative solution in which both sides gain relative to a simple bargaining process. Two sets of experiments were conducted: (1) with real actors—participants who played the negotiation game; and (2) with simulated actors, where the negotiation process was run through more iterations using objectives and preferences provided by participants. A hypothetical case study was used, in which two adjacent countries are competing for water from a finite common source. The paper describes the experiments and results, and draws conclusions regarding the value of using a negotiation framework in which multiobjective evaluation (using the analytic hierarchy process) and economic evaluation (using the water allocation system) are embedded.
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Acknowledgments
Scholarships from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology over several years enabled the studies of Lea Kronaveter. The writers are grateful to Yona Shamir and her team at the Israel Center for Negotiation and Mediation (ICNM) and to Technion students for participating in the simulations in which we tested the NSS methodology.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 135 • Issue 2 • March 2009
Pages: 70 - 79
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Received: Sep 25, 2006
Accepted: Jul 1, 2008
Published online: Mar 1, 2009
Published in print: Mar 2009
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