Risk-based decision making in water resources VIII
Subtitle: proceedings of the eighth conference, October 12-17, 1997, Santa Barbara, California
By: sponsored by Engineering Foundation ; co-sponsored by Universities Council on Water Resources, Task Committee on Risk Analysis and Management of the Committee on Water Resources Planning of the ASCE Water Resources Planning and Management Division ; supported by National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources ; approved for publication by Water Resources Planning and Management Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Yacov Y. Haimes, David A. Moser, and Eugene Z. Stakhiv ; technical editor, Grace I. Zisk.
Contributors: Haimes, Yacov Y.; Moser, David A.; Stakhiv, Eugene Z.; Zisk, Grace I.; Engineering Foundation (U.S.); Universities Council on Water Resources.; American Society of Civil Engineers. Task Committee on Risk Analysis and Management.; Engineering Foundation Conference on Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Reston, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Water resources development -- Decision making -- Congresses.; Risk assessment -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Probabilistic risk assessment of water systems vulnerable to tampering / James H. Lambert; value: Risk-based decision making for dam safety / Jerry L. Foster; value: Achieving public protection with dam safety risk assessment practices / Charles Hennig, Karl Dise, and Bruce Muller; value: Toward a risk-based assessment of shallow-draft navigation investments / Wesley W. Walker; value: A systems approach to the optimal safety level of connecting water barriers in a sea-lake environment : case study : the Afsluitdijk Dam, The Netherlands / Alex Roos, Frank den Heijer, and Pieter van Gelder; value: Risk-averse reliability-based optimization of sea defenses / P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder and J.K. Vrijling; value: On the application to risk and decision analysis of TRIZ, the Russian theory of inventive problem-solving / Stan Kaplan; value: A fuzzy rule-based model to link circulation patterns, ENSO, and extra precipitation / Agnes Galambosi ... [et al.]; value: Managing uncertainty / William D. Rowe; value: Risk of regional drought influenced by ENSO / Rita Pongracz ... [et al.]; value: Use of criteria-based rankings in risk-based analysis of ecosystem restoration projects / Charles Yoe; value: Ecological risk and policy choice / Mark R. Powell; value: Extreme value analysis of wasterwater treament plant flows / Jonathan W. Bulkley; value: Adaptive risk analysis for resource conservation programs / Ronald Meekhof ... [et al.]; value: Public perceptions of water pollution threats and experts as mitigators / Robert E. O'Connor, Richard J.Bord, and Ann Fisher; value: Time-dependent reliability and hazard function development for navigation structures in the Ohio River mainstem system study / Robert C. Patev ... [et al.]; value: Session II summary : dam safety and risk of extreme and catastrophic events / Wesley W. Walker; value: Session VII summary : regulatory analysis / Jonathan W. Bulkley.