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Ethical discounting for intergenerational life-cycle risk assessment
In risk-informed decisions involving civil infrastructure facilities, the decision-maker often compares the immediate investments in design with the costs of maintenance or replacement of civil facilities during the facility service period. Certain civil infrastructure projects have substantially longer service periods than typical buildings and bridges. Conventional discounting methods for projects with service periods extending to a century or more raise ethical issues in terms of project risk shared between the current and future generations. To address these issues, several approaches to discounting have been suggested recently that aimed at sharing risk equitably between generations and at achieving long-term sustainable solutions for civil infrastructure projects. This paper explores recent developments in intergenerational discounting practices and examines how those methods might affect the optimal design solutions and long-term decision-making. ; Non UBC ; Unreviewed ; This collection contains the proceedings of ICASP12, the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering held in Vancouver, Canada on July 12-15, 2015. Abstracts were peer-reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts were invited to submit full papers. Also full papers were peer reviewed. The editor for this collection is Professor Terje Haukaas, Department of Civil Engineering, UBC Vancouver. ; Faculty ; Graduate
Ethical discounting for intergenerational life-cycle risk assessment
In risk-informed decisions involving civil infrastructure facilities, the decision-maker often compares the immediate investments in design with the costs of maintenance or replacement of civil facilities during the facility service period. Certain civil infrastructure projects have substantially longer service periods than typical buildings and bridges. Conventional discounting methods for projects with service periods extending to a century or more raise ethical issues in terms of project risk shared between the current and future generations. To address these issues, several approaches to discounting have been suggested recently that aimed at sharing risk equitably between generations and at achieving long-term sustainable solutions for civil infrastructure projects. This paper explores recent developments in intergenerational discounting practices and examines how those methods might affect the optimal design solutions and long-term decision-making. ; Non UBC ; Unreviewed ; This collection contains the proceedings of ICASP12, the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering held in Vancouver, Canada on July 12-15, 2015. Abstracts were peer-reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts were invited to submit full papers. Also full papers were peer reviewed. The editor for this collection is Professor Terje Haukaas, Department of Civil Engineering, UBC Vancouver. ; Faculty ; Graduate
Ethical discounting for intergenerational life-cycle risk assessment
2015-07-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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