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Game Analysis of the Evolution of Local Government’s River Chief System Implementation Strategy

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  • Juan Wang

    (School of Management, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China)

  • Xin Wan

    (Institute of Income Distribution and Public Finance, School of Taxation and Public Finance, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China)

  • Ruide Tu

    (School of Information Management, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China)

Abstract

As the executor of the River Chief System (RCS), local governments’ choice of implementation strategies directly affects the quality of regional water environment. The implementation of the RCS involves many interest subjects, and has gradually formed a game between enterprises’ sewage management and local governments’ RCS implementation strategies, and a game between the RCS implementation strategies of different local governments. The game behavior between the interested parties is long-term and dynamic in nature. Strategies such as reducing the cost of local governments’ implementation of the RCS and increasing the rate of sewage charges will lead to the evolution of the strategy set between enterprises’ treatment of sewage and local governments’ RCS implementation in the direction of {complete treatment of sewage, strictly enforcing the RCS}. Analysis of the evolutionary game model between the local governments reveals that strategies such as reducing the weight of economic indicators in local governments’ assessment, and increasing the material and spiritual rewards for implementing the RCS, will lead to the evolutionary game outcome of implementing the RCS between the local governments in the direction of {strictly enforcing the RCS, strictly enforcing the RCS}. The external effects of sewage discharge do not affect the evolution of the game system between the local governments.

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  • Juan Wang & Xin Wan & Ruide Tu, 2022. "Game Analysis of the Evolution of Local Government’s River Chief System Implementation Strategy," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(4), pages 1-13, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:4:p:1961-:d:745890
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