Conceptual models related to the management of groundwater resources are presented. Socially optimal and privately optimal, or atomistic, management rules and outcomes are compared, and decentralized policy schemes, in the form of water taxes, that can be used to sustain socially optimal use of groundwater resources are explored.

Groundwater resources, open loop and feedback Nash equilibrium, regulation, socially optimal management
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