Engineering and Design - Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1329661648 / ISBN 13: 9781329661646

Edité par Lulu.com, 2015

Engineering and Design - Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies | U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2015 | [.] | EAN 9781329661646 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. N° de réf. du vendeur 103922297

Synopsis :

Risk involves exposure to a chance of injury or loss. The fact that risk inherently involves chance leads directly to a need to describe and to deal with uncertainty. Corps policy has long been (1) to acknowledge risk and the uncertainty in predicting floods and flood impacts, and (2) to plan accordingly. Historically, that planning relied on analysis of the expected long-term performance of flood-damage-reduction measures, on application of safety factors and freeboard, on designing for worst-case scenarios, and on other indirect solutions to compensate for uncertainty. These indirect approaches were necessary because of the lack of technical knowledge of the complex interaction of uncertainties in predicting hydrologic, hydraulic, and economic functions and because of the complexities of the mathematics required to do otherwise.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Risk involves exposure to a chance of injury or loss. The fact that risk inherently involves chance leads directly to a need to describe and to deal with uncertainty. Corps policy has long been (1) to acknowledge risk and the uncertainty in predicting floods and flood impacts, and (2) to plan accordingly. Historically, that planning relied on analysis of the expected long-term performance of flood-damage-reduction measures, on application of safety factors and freeboard, on designing for worst-case scenarios, and on other indirect solutions to compensate for uncertainty. These indirect approaches were necessary because of the lack of technical knowledge of the complex interaction of uncertainties in predicting hydrologic, hydraulic, and economic functions and because of the complexities of the mathematics required to do otherwise.

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Titre : Engineering and Design - Risk-Based Analysis...
Éditeur : Lulu.com
Date d'édition : 2015
Reliure : Taschenbuch
Etat : Neu