Effects of individual strategies for resource access on collaboratively maintained irrigation infrastructure

Built infrastructure for water and energy supply, transportation, other such services underpins human well-being socioeconomic development. A fundamental understanding of how design user strategies interact can guide important decisions as well policy formulation ensuring long-term viability in conjunction with improved individual benefits. In this work, an agent based model (ABM) is developed to study issue the specific case irrigation canals. Cooperatively maintained canals serve essential roles sustaining agriculture-based economies many regions. Canal system strongly affect benefits derived by distributed users, regional agricultural output, shared itself. Here, ABM used investigate option use independent source interacts canal maintenance cooperation farmer income. The stylized a that provides access groundwater represents strategically robust option; reduces implementer's utility vulnerability unfavorable actions actors. Research systems has demonstrated designs improve both implementer probability collaboration. results research, contrast, demonstrate resource access, option, represented well, cooperative most cases. However, wells also income, especially downstream farmers are affected theft.