Risk-Based Decisionmaking in Water Resources IX

Proceedings of the Ninth United Engineering Foundation Conference, held in Santa Barbara, California, October 15-20, 2000. Sponsored by United Engineering Foundation. Cosponsored by Universities Council on Water Resources; Task Committee on Risk Analysis and Management of the Committee on Water Resources Planning of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division of ASCE; National Science Foundation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Institute for Water Resources.

This collection contains 18 paperson the rapidly growing field of risk-based decisionmaking in water resources.

Topics include:

• new theoretical and methodological frontiers and the economic dimensions of risk analysis,
• legislative initiatives and risk assessment,
• maintenance and rehabilitation,
• reliability of physical infrastructure,
• flood frequency and climate nonstationarity, and
• risk of extreme events.