System robustness analysis in support of flood and drought risk management
Drought management Flood damage prevention System analysis sähkökirjat Flood management Risk management Watershed management SCIENCE / System Theory TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Operations Research
IOS Press
2015
EISBN 9781614994817
""Title Page""; ""Summary""; ""Samenvatting""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Flood and drought risk""; ""Risk-based decision making""; ""Robust systems""; ""Objective and research questions""; ""Research approach""; ""Outline of this thesis""; ""Conceptual framework for analysing system robustness""; ""Defining system robustness""; ""...in general""; ""...in this thesis""; ""...of flood risk systems""; ""...of drought risk systems""; ""Analysing system robustness""; ""Response curve""; ""Characterising system robustness""; ""Quantifying system robustness""
""Drought management under uncertainty""""Analysing system robustness""; ""Application on a drought risk system""; ""Methods and assumptions""; ""Water balance model and input data""; ""Characterising and selecting drought events""; ""Water supply loss function""; ""Scoring the robustness criteria""; ""Results""; ""Discussion, conclusions and recommendations""; ""Discussion and conclusions""; ""Recommendations""; ""Analysing the robustness of an agricultural drought risk system: a case in a coastal polder area in the Netherlands""; ""Introduction""
""Drought risk management under climate change""""Case study area""; ""Outline""; ""System robustness analysis framework and alternative system configurations""; ""Response curve""; ""System robustness criteria""; ""Alternative system configurations""; ""Models""; ""Data""; ""Results: how robust is West-Netherlands for droughts?""; ""Analysis with NHI""; ""Analysis with RAM""; ""Discussion""; ""System robustness criteria""; ""How can system robustness be explained?""; ""How can system robustness be increased?""; ""The added value of robustness analysis for drought risk management""
""Enhancing flood risk system robustness in practice: insights from two river valleys""""Introduction""; ""Method: Quantification of system robustness""; ""Response curve""; ""System robustness criteria""; ""Introduction to the cases""; ""IJssel case""; ""Meuse case""; ""Results""; ""IJssel River valley""; ""Meuse River valley""; ""Discussion""; ""What enhances system robustness?""; ""How realistic are `unbreachable' embankments?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Developing system robustness analysis for drought risk management: an application to a water supply reservoir""; ""Introduction""
""Response curve in comparison to a risk curve""""System robustness versus decision robustness""; ""The added value of system robustness analysis for flood risk management""; ""Introduction""; ""Flood risk analysis""; ""Approach""; ""Step 1: water level probability distribution per location""; ""Step 2: fragility curve for each location""; ""Step 3: potential damage at each breach location""; ""Step 4: flood risk of the entire system""; ""Results""; ""System robustness analysis""; ""Approach""; ""Results""; ""Discussion of system robustness criteria""; ""Conclusion""
Floods and droughts have an increasing impact on societies worldwide. It is unlikely that the provision of flood protection infrastructure and reservoirs will eliminate this problem, especially as extreme events are expected to increase in probability and magnitude as a result of climate change. For this reason, the focus of water management has shifted to a risk-based approach in recent years; but this also has its limitations.This book examines system robustness as a new perspective on flood and drought risk management. The concept of robustness is familiar from other areas, such as engineer.
""Drought management under uncertainty""""Analysing system robustness""; ""Application on a drought risk system""; ""Methods and assumptions""; ""Water balance model and input data""; ""Characterising and selecting drought events""; ""Water supply loss function""; ""Scoring the robustness criteria""; ""Results""; ""Discussion, conclusions and recommendations""; ""Discussion and conclusions""; ""Recommendations""; ""Analysing the robustness of an agricultural drought risk system: a case in a coastal polder area in the Netherlands""; ""Introduction""
""Drought risk management under climate change""""Case study area""; ""Outline""; ""System robustness analysis framework and alternative system configurations""; ""Response curve""; ""System robustness criteria""; ""Alternative system configurations""; ""Models""; ""Data""; ""Results: how robust is West-Netherlands for droughts?""; ""Analysis with NHI""; ""Analysis with RAM""; ""Discussion""; ""System robustness criteria""; ""How can system robustness be explained?""; ""How can system robustness be increased?""; ""The added value of robustness analysis for drought risk management""
""Enhancing flood risk system robustness in practice: insights from two river valleys""""Introduction""; ""Method: Quantification of system robustness""; ""Response curve""; ""System robustness criteria""; ""Introduction to the cases""; ""IJssel case""; ""Meuse case""; ""Results""; ""IJssel River valley""; ""Meuse River valley""; ""Discussion""; ""What enhances system robustness?""; ""How realistic are `unbreachable' embankments?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Developing system robustness analysis for drought risk management: an application to a water supply reservoir""; ""Introduction""
""Response curve in comparison to a risk curve""""System robustness versus decision robustness""; ""The added value of system robustness analysis for flood risk management""; ""Introduction""; ""Flood risk analysis""; ""Approach""; ""Step 1: water level probability distribution per location""; ""Step 2: fragility curve for each location""; ""Step 3: potential damage at each breach location""; ""Step 4: flood risk of the entire system""; ""Results""; ""System robustness analysis""; ""Approach""; ""Results""; ""Discussion of system robustness criteria""; ""Conclusion""
Floods and droughts have an increasing impact on societies worldwide. It is unlikely that the provision of flood protection infrastructure and reservoirs will eliminate this problem, especially as extreme events are expected to increase in probability and magnitude as a result of climate change. For this reason, the focus of water management has shifted to a risk-based approach in recent years; but this also has its limitations.This book examines system robustness as a new perspective on flood and drought risk management. The concept of robustness is familiar from other areas, such as engineer.
