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Dam Failure Contingency Risk Management
Floods due to dam/levee breaks usually have long lead time (hours to days), which provides an opportunity for implementing pre‐disaster emergency management to save human life and property. The process of pre‐disaster emergency management can be divided into four phases: observation, risk assessment, and decision‐making; warning; response; and evacuation and sheltering. Making technical decisions under uncertainties is a necessary part or even the major part of the work of an engineer. The objective of decision analysis is to maximize the benefit or minimize the loss. Risk‐based decision‐making should include a list of all feasible alternatives, including the acquisition of additional information, if appropriate. Dynamic decision‐making under emergency management is aimed at minimizing the possible dam‐break consequences using primarily non‐structure measures, such as warning, sheltering, and evacuation by taking advantage of sufficient time effect. The chapter also discusses dynamic decision‐making problems at both time and space scales.
Dam Failure Contingency Risk Management
Floods due to dam/levee breaks usually have long lead time (hours to days), which provides an opportunity for implementing pre‐disaster emergency management to save human life and property. The process of pre‐disaster emergency management can be divided into four phases: observation, risk assessment, and decision‐making; warning; response; and evacuation and sheltering. Making technical decisions under uncertainties is a necessary part or even the major part of the work of an engineer. The objective of decision analysis is to maximize the benefit or minimize the loss. Risk‐based decision‐making should include a list of all feasible alternatives, including the acquisition of additional information, if appropriate. Dynamic decision‐making under emergency management is aimed at minimizing the possible dam‐break consequences using primarily non‐structure measures, such as warning, sheltering, and evacuation by taking advantage of sufficient time effect. The chapter also discusses dynamic decision‐making problems at both time and space scales.
Dam Failure Contingency Risk Management
Zhang, Limin (author) / Peng, Ming (author) / Chang, Dongsheng (author) / Xu, Yao (author)
2016-06-03
31 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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