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Game theory for flood risk management: futures in understanding human-water systems

2025· preprint· en· W4409551985 on OpenAlexaff
Adam Nayak, A. I. Novak, Kaveh Madani, Mengjie Zhang, Upmanu Lall

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicWater resources management and optimization
Canadian institutionsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFutures contractFlood mythFlood risk managementRisk managementGame theoryBusinessEnvironmental resource managementWater resource managementEnvironmental planningEnvironmental scienceEconomicsGeographyMicroeconomicsFinance

Abstract

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Effective flood risk management demands complex decision-making processes that account for the dynamic feedback between hydrological systems and human behavior. Traditional approaches rooted in hydrology often fall short in integrating the social interactions inherent to human-water systems. Game theory, as a mathematical framework for analyzing strategic decision-making and conflict, has shown immense potential in human-water systems management but remains largely untapped in flood risk planning. This review explores how game theory can bridge critical gaps in flood risk management by offering a unified framework for risk assessment, conflict resolution, behavioral analysis, resource allocation, and policy design. By synthesizing current literature and presenting innovative applications, we aim to position game theory as an essential tool for advancing the integration of human and hydrological systems.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.006
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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