title: A new bankruptcy method for conflict resolution in water resources allocation.
abstract: Growing competition over water resources has caused political disputes among stakeholders and has brought conflict resolution in the focus of negotiation processes. In these cases, bankruptcy rules for redistributing an asset when it is not sufficient to meet all claims could be applied. In this paper, we develop a new bankruptcy rule for water resources problems that considers agents' contribution to the total resources as well as their claims, which is in accordance with the UN Watercourses Convention (1997), as important factors for reallocation. Using the Euphrates River and a hypothetical case from the literature as examples, the new rule is compared with four alternative rules. The results show that the novel solution is potentially more powerful to help solving conflicts over river sharing problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands. Electronic address: h.mianabadi@tudelft.nl.
authors.forename: Hojjat
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mianabadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands. Electronic address: e.mostert@tudelft.nl.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mostert
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, 51664 Tabriz, Iran. Electronic address: mzarghami@tabrizu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mahdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zarghami
authors.affiliation: Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands. Electronic address: n.c.vandegiesen@tudelft.nl.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: van de Giesen
mesh_terms: D016361:Bankruptcy; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D007493:Iraq; D017008:Negotiating / Q000379:methods*; D040841:Resource Allocation / Q000191:economics; D045483:Rivers; D013593:Syria; D014421:Turkey; D062066:Water Resources / Q000032:analysis* / Q000191:economics
keywords: Bankruptcy theory; Conflict resolution; Euphrates River; Water resources allocation