Game Analysis of Cooperative Pollution Control of River Basin

The conflict of water resources environment becomes the important factors of endangering the peace and stability of regions and restricting the sustainable development of river basin. It becomes one of the important duties for water resources management to mitigate the conflict of water resources for river basin and to promote the negotiation and cooperation between parties. This paper analyzes the problem of environmental cooperation among regions in a river basin by means of optimal control theory and game theory. Based on the cooperative and non-cooperative differential game models of water environmental management in a simplified frame, we get that the cooperation among regions is possible in some conditions and if the lower agrees to compensate to the upper, both regions can be benefited from their cooperation. These conclusions provide some theoretical basis for the water resources management.