Green Operations Management of Interbasin Water Transfer Project: An Extended Framework of Joint Pricing and Inventory Management

Table 1

Parameters/variables settings.

Parameters/Variables	Definitions
	The cost of supplying water to i^th distributor from i^th water-intake
	The cost of transferring water to k^th water-intake from (k-1)^th water-intake in the horizontal supply chain
	The water loss rate from (k-1)^th to k^th water-intake in the horizontal supply chain, and
	The original pumping quantity from water source to the i^th water-intake
	The ordering amount of i^th water-intake.
	The fixed cost of water supply for the i^th water-intake.
	The fixed cost of water supply for the internal supplier, .
	The fixed cost of water supply for the external supplier, .
	The total fixed cost for the IBWT supplier is .
	The wholesale price of water from internal to external supplier.
	The retail price from the i^th distributor to consumers, then .
	The wholesale price from supplier to i^th distributor, then .
	The WGD effort for the i^th water-intake, then .
	The cost coefficient of the WGD effort.
	The internal supplier’s bargaining power, .
	The i^th water-intake’s bargaining power, .
	The possible maximum quantity of the water demand.
	The price-elasticity of water demand, and satisfies .
	The impact coefficient of WGD effort, and satisfies .
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	, the i^th distributor’s “water stock factor”, then .
	a random disturbance defined in the range with .
	The i^th distributor’s water demand, .
	The mean value of .
	The standard deviation of .
	The probability density function (PDF) of .
	The cumulative distribution function (CDF) of .
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