CLIMATE CHANGE AND COOPERATION IN （气候变化与合作）.pdf

N AT U R A L R E SO U RC E M O D E L IN G Volum e 24, N um b er 4, N ovem b er 2011 CLIMATE CHANGE AND COOPERATION IN TRANSBOUNDARY WATER SHARING: AN APPLICATION OF STOCHASTIC STACKELBERG DIFFERENTIAL GAMES IN VOLTA RIVER BASIN ANIK BHADURI∗ Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Walter Flex Strasse 3, Bonn 53113, Germany E-mail: abhaduri@uni-bonn.de UTPAL MANNA School of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), CET Campus, Thiruvananthapuram 695016, Kerala, India Thiruvananthapuram, India E-mail: manna.utpal@iisertvm.ac.in EDWARD BARBIER Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, Laramie 82071, WY E-mail: ebarbier@uwyo.edu JENS LIEBE Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Walter Flex Strasse 3, Bonn 53113, Germany E-mail: jliebe@uni-bonn.de Abstract. As multiple countries share a river, the like- lihood of conflicts over distributing water resources increases, particularly under the effects of climate change. In this paper, we demonstrate how countries can cooperate in sustainable transboundary water sharing under such conditions. We ex- amine the case of water distribution in the Volta Basin of West Africa between the upstream country, Burkina Faso, and the downstream country, Ghana. The latter faces an additional tradeoff betw