Coopetitive Games for Sustainability of Global Feeding and Climate Change: Recent Developments
Coopetitive Games for Sustainability of Global Feeding and Climate Change: Recent Developments
Author(s): David CARFI, Alessia DonatoSubject(s): Economy
Published by: ASERS Publishing
Keywords: environment; coopetitive games; green economy; sustainable food production; policy facing climate change
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we face the problem of global feeding sustainability and related environmental issues, with a strong attention to possible public heath improvements. In particular, we consider food producers and sellers of vegan (or vegetarian) and nonvegan (or non-vegetarian) food and we build up feasible and measurable contracts between two different food producers, in order to construct a more sustainable and healthier diet for future generations. At this aim, we use co-opetitive approach by means of game theory. Our co-opetitive approach consists in a game theory structure, which could help small local producers of vegan food a simpler entry in the global market and free significant publicity. At the same time, our mathematical construction suggests how big global producers/sellers of non-vegetarian food could develop a smooth rapid transaction to a more sustainable and healthier production/supply. Specifically, our game constitutes an asymmetric R&D alliance between McDonald’s and the local producer of the so called vegan product "Muscle of Wheat". We finally show a quantitative compromise solution, obtained by the Kalai-Smorodinsky principles, in a numerical study (exemplary) case.
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism (JEMT)
- Issue Year: IX/2018
- Issue No: 01 (25)
- Page Range: 200-215
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
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