Governing Government-Project Owner Relationships in Water Megaprojects: a Concession Game Analysis on Allocation of Control Rights

Ma, Tianyu; Wang, Zhuofu; Skibniewski, Mirosław J.

doi:10.1007/s11269-020-02627-z

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“…Many states and cities within the United States even placed a moratorium on the water supply during the pandemic period (Warner et al 2020 ; Nath et al 2022 ). This suggests that the water megaprojects should be planned carefully to ensure the economic and social balance (Ma et al 2020 ).…”

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Air Quality during the COVID–19 Lockdown and Unlock Periods in India Analyzed Using Satellite and Ground-based Measurements

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A nationwide lockdown was imposed in India from 24 March 2020 to 31 May 2020 to contain the spread of COVID-19. The lockdown has changed the atmospheric pollution across the continents. Here, we analyze the changes in two most important air quality related trace gases, nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) from satellite and surface observations, during the lockdown (April – May 2020) and unlock periods (June – September 2020) in India, to examine the baseline emissions when anthropogenic sources were significantly reduced. We use the Bayesian statistics to find the changes in these trace gas concentrations in different time periods. There is a strong reduction in NO 2 during the lockdown as public transport and industries were shut during that period. The largest changes are found in IGP (Indo-Gangetic Plain), and industrial and mining areas in Eastern India. The changes are small in the hilly regions, where the concentrations of these trace gases are also very small (0 – 1 × 10 15 molec./cm 2 ). In addition, a corresponding increase in the concentrations of tropospheric O 3 is observed during the period. The analyses over cities show that there is a large decrease in NO 2 in Delhi (36%), Bangalore (21%) and Ahmedabad (21%). As the lockdown restrictions were eased during the unlock period, the concentrations of NO 2 gradually increased and ozone deceased in most regions. Therefore, this study suggests that pollution control measures should be prioritized, ensuring strict regulations to control the source of anthropogenic pollutants, particularly from the transport and industrial sectors. Highlights • Most cities show a reduction up to 15% of NO 2 during the lockdown • The unlock periods show again an increase of about 40 – 50% in NO 2 • An increase in tropospheric O 3 is observed together with the decrease in NO 2 Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40710-022-00585-9.

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Air Quality during the COVID–19 Lockdown and Unlock Periods in India Analyzed Using Satellite and Ground-based Measurements

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“…Major infrastructure projects (MIPs) are large-scale engineering facilities that provide basic public services for social production and economic development and people's lives (Liu et al, 2018;Flyvbjerg, 2014;Flyvbjerg & Turner, 2018). A range of MIPs has been built and operated, such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and Qinghai-Tibet Railway (Ma et al, 2020;Zhao et al, 2017). However, it cannot be ignored that a series of quality accidents about MIPs have widely triggered severe social concerns recently (Zhang et al, 2018;Kim et al, 2013).…”

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Evolutionary Game Analysis for Rent-Seeking Behavior Supervision of Major Infrastructure Projects Based on Prospect Theory

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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Major infrastructure projects (MIPs) possess significant strategic positions in the national economy and social development. However, recently, the rent-seeking behavior between supervision units and project contractors has intensified in project construction. This paper aims to study the behavior decision-making of stakeholders in rent-seeking behavior supervision system of MIPs. In the complex and uncertain environment of MIPs, game players have cognitive bias and value perception preference. Therefore, this study introduced prospect theory and constructed the perceived return matrix and evolutionary game model of MIP rent-seeking behavior supervision among project owners, supervision units, and project contractors. From the perspective of risk perception theory, the reasons for the behavioral tendencies of game participants and the conditions for the steady state of strategy selection were explored through system dynamics simulations. The results showed that the stable state of the optimal strategy in the rent-seeking behavior supervision system of MIPs is related to the cognitive bias of the game players and is influenced by the level of regulation cost, the intensity of punishment and the size of accident losses. The contribution of this study lies in providing theoretical basis and decision support for constructing a long-term preventive mechanism for rent-seeking activities in MIPs.

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“…In reality, it is believed that some systems of centralization and meritocracy are more likely to be completely rational, whereas collective decision‐making systems (such as a parliamentary system) are more likely to be semirational (or called bounded rational). This setting on rational levels can cover more possibilities in reality than some previous studies, which only consider ideal rational assumptions (Ma et al, 2020; Yao et al, 2020; Zhi et al, 2018). The results of these gaming models can help explain the reasons and motivations of decision‐making related to a VWS and provide suggestions for future improvement.…”

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Game theory model for a virtual water strategy: Scenarios under rational and semirational game play

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Water & Environment J

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The virtual water strategy (VWS) provides a theoretically feasible method to transport virtual water (VW) and balance regional differences in water resource endowments. However, the practical implementation of VWS faces selective resistance due to the lack of research in motivation analysis across potential executor regions. Game theory provides a new approach to study the decision‐making mechanism and behavioural motivation in the implementation of VWS. This study builds some semiquantitative game models to analyse the regions’ potential acceptance of VWS in decision‐making, especially concerning economic development, water sustainability, and trade patterns. The result shows the factors like external incentives and stability of game can affect the payoffs and strategy selections on VWS in rational and semirational games. To achieve a mutual benefit equilibrium towards an effective VWS framework, improvement efforts could include mechanisms for rewards or punishments, promoting long‐term cooperation, and promulgation and education.

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Governing Government-Project Owner Relationships in Water Megaprojects: a Concession Game Analysis on Allocation of Control Rights

Cited by 10 publications

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Air Quality during the COVID–19 Lockdown and Unlock Periods in India Analyzed Using Satellite and Ground-based Measurements

Air Quality during the COVID–19 Lockdown and Unlock Periods in India Analyzed Using Satellite and Ground-based Measurements

Evolutionary Game Analysis for Rent-Seeking Behavior Supervision of Major Infrastructure Projects Based on Prospect Theory

Game theory model for a virtual water strategy: Scenarios under rational and semirational game play

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