Engineering risk in natural resources management : with special references to hydrosystems under changes of physical or climatic environment / edited by L. Duckstein and E. Parent.
This book provides a system framework to observe, detect and monitor changes in geophysical time series for the purpose of managing natural -- mostly water -- resources. The institutional aspects of risk are considered to be an integral part of the management system. Original and novel features incl...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.,
[1994]
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| Series: | NATO ASI series. Applied sciences ;
no. 275. |
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| Summary: | This book provides a system framework to observe, detect and monitor changes in geophysical time series for the purpose of managing natural -- mostly water -- resources. The institutional aspects of risk are considered to be an integral part of the management system. Original and novel features include the definitions of institutions, the development of forecasting and control schemes under non-steady inputs and the point of view of practitioners, all embedded in a common framework for reliability and risk analysis. The first three chapters provide the model-based systems design and control framework, and then the methodology for physical and stochastic analysis of the changing forcing function and hydrometeorological input series. The next two chapters deal with consequences of climate change, in particular, its potential effect on river flows, sea level rise, water quality and extreme floods respectively. The last two chapters develop engineering decisions, policy considerations and case examples. Whereas most reliability and risk analysis books have dealt with steady-state conditions, we are specifically focusing on the difficult problems of observations and management to be done in a non-stationary environment. |
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| Item Description: | "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Engineering Risk in Natural Resources Management with Special References to Hydrosystems under Changes of Physical and Climatic Environment", Deauville, France, May 24-June 4, 1993." Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1994. "Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1994"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 473 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401582711 9401582718 9048144418 9789048144419 |