Risk, reliability, uncertainty, and robustness of water resources systems [electronic resource] / edited by Janos J. Bogardi, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz.

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ISBN:

9780511041334

9780511546006

9780511047442

9780511156809

Title:

Risk, reliability, uncertainty, and robustness of water resources systems [electronic resource] / edited by Janos J. Bogardi, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz.

Author:

Bogárdi, János.

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

International hydrology series

General Note:

Papers presented at the third George Kovacs Colloquium held in UNESCO, Paris, September 19-21, 1996.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Integrated regional risk assessment and safety management: Challenge from Agenda 21; 3 Risk analysis: The unbearable cleverness of bluffing; 4 Aspects of uncertainty, reliability, and risk in flood forecasting systems incorporating weather radar; 5 Probabilistic hydrometeorological forecasting; 6 Flood risk management: Risk cartography for objective negotiations; 7 Responses to the variability and increasing uncertainty of climate in Australia.

Local Note:

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Subject Term:

Hydrology -- Statistical methods -- Congresses.

Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Congresses.

Hydrology -- Statistical methods.

Uncertainty (Information theory)

Added Author:

Bogárdi, János.

Kundzewicz, Zbigniew.

Added Conference Author:

George Kovacs Colloquium (3rd : 1996 : UNESCO, Paris, France)