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Flood risk and economically optimal safety targets for coastal flood defense systems

International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability (12th : 2015 : Vancouver, B.C.)

A front defense can improve the reliability of a rear defense in a coastal flood defense system. The influence of this interdependency on the accompanying economically optimal safety targets of both front and rear defense is investigated. The results preliminary suggest that the optimal safety level of a coastal flood defense system can only be improved with a combination of front and rear defense if for a similar risk reduction, the front defense investment is cheaper than the rear defense. If a case needs a more complex risk and economic optimization model, the simplified approach is no longer applicable and a computational framework is recommended. Nevertheless, the simplified approach offers a fast, first order assessment of the economically optimal safety targets for coastal flood defense systems.

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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.

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0076196

Non UBC

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/