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Complex Network Modeling and Evolutionary Game Simulation of the Arctic Environmental Emergency Response and Governance

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Climate change provides opportunities in the surrounding areas of North Pole to commercial shipping activities, but which also poses risks to ship strikes, oil spills, chronic marine environmental pollution, etc. However, the public product supply of Arctic environmental emergency response and governance is seriously insufficient. As such, a collective and effective system should be established to protect the Arctic environment. In the present paper, a complex network model of Arctic environmental emergency response and governance system is developed. The strategy of each country in the complex network is demonstrated by evolutionary game simulations of this system model. Computational results indicate that the benefit of environmental emergency response and governance affects the cooperation strategy of each country. Moreover, Long-term benefit and return intensity are the key parameters of environmental emergency response and governance benefit. These findings extend theoretical research in the sustainable development Arctic routes and provide reference for the participation of other countries beyond the Arctic Council.

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The authors acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 61473053). We also would like to show appreciation to the anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions.

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    Houming Fan, Xiaodan Jiang, Caiyun Li & Zhongkai Yuan

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Fan, H., Jiang, X., Li, C. et al. Complex Network Modeling and Evolutionary Game Simulation of the Arctic Environmental Emergency Response and Governance. Wireless Pers Commun 102, 951–961 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-5118-y

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