Conflict and Cooperation in Managing International Water Resources Such as the Great Lakes
用博弈论分析国际水资源合作的可能性，发现当部分用户先合作时，其他人也会跟随，非合作并非必然结果。
Growing concerns about the availability of clean water supplies have stimulated increased interest in the management of international waters. This paper uses game theory to assess the potential for cooperative management of an international water body such as the Great Lakes. We demonstrate that a noncooperative solution is not the inevitable outcome for the use of an open access water resource. Stable cooperative coalitions are possible when a subset of users decides to cooperate. In our examples, once a minimum number of users decides to cooperate, the remaining noncooperators find that it is in their best interests to cooperate.