Assessing and affording the control of flood risk

Structural Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-147

  Lind, Niels ^a   Pandey, Mahesh ^a   Nathwani, Jatin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross entropy; Flood; Monoscopic; Optimization; Risk; SCCR; Socio economic

Indexed keywords

DEPRECIATION; EMBANKMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FUSION REACTIONS; LEVEES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONTROL PROJECTS; CROSS-ENTROPY; DESIGN CRITERIONS; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATIONS; FLOOD RISKS; HYDROLOGICAL DATUMS; INTEREST RATES; MONOSCOPIC; PROBABILISTIC DESIGNS; RELATIVE ENTROPIES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; RISK REDUCTIONS; SCCR; SOCIO-ECONOMIC;

DESIGN;

EID: 56949101801     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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