Here the effort is to make modifications in the basin to move floodwaters out as quickly as possible and keep the number of milkings missed to fewer than six. Losing more than this number of milkings means the loss of productive cows. These examples of risk-benefit analysis by local landowners responding to market incentives show that people will take risks against natural hazards. They are often ignorant of risk probabilities and these are not well communicated in the community. The risk assessments are not quantitative.
Landowners seek technology believing they can armor themselves against risks.
Bringing Back the Beaches. The accumulation of river and beach sediments in Tillamook Bay, Oregon, as determined from their compositions and grain-size distributions. Presented at the Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, 1999. Colbert DL, McManus J. Seasonal variability and geochemical cycling of nutrients in the Tillamook Bay Watershed. Institutional structures for river restoration.