TY - GEN
T1 - Optimal flood risk management - Decision process in practice
AU - Ková, O. Špa
AU - Rimböck, A.
AU - Straub, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The flood risk management policy for mountain torrents in Bavaria is currently updated. This paper discusses the basis for these works and presents an initial proposal of a decision framework. Existing approaches for decision and planning of flood mitigation strategies are reviewed, starting from an ad-hoc approach where the measures are designed as a reaction on an experienced flood event, to risk-based approaches that try to find an optimal balance between costs of the protection measures and the residual risk. Four methods for the evaluation of protection strategies are discussed: Cost-minimization analysis (CMA), cost-benefit analysis (CBA), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and multi-criteria analysis (MCA). Finally, the proposed decision framework for Bavarian Alpine catchments is presented, which should allow an optimization of the existing flood protection systems.
AB - The flood risk management policy for mountain torrents in Bavaria is currently updated. This paper discusses the basis for these works and presents an initial proposal of a decision framework. Existing approaches for decision and planning of flood mitigation strategies are reviewed, starting from an ad-hoc approach where the measures are designed as a reaction on an experienced flood event, to risk-based approaches that try to find an optimal balance between costs of the protection measures and the residual risk. Four methods for the evaluation of protection strategies are discussed: Cost-minimization analysis (CMA), cost-benefit analysis (CBA), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and multi-criteria analysis (MCA). Finally, the proposed decision framework for Bavarian Alpine catchments is presented, which should allow an optimization of the existing flood protection systems.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84933574804&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784413609.288
DO - 10.1061/9780784413609.288
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84933574804
T3 - Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Quantification, Mitigation, and Management - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management, ICVRAM 2014 and the 6th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA 2014
SP - 2857
EP - 2866
BT - Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk
A2 - Hall, Jim W.
A2 - Au, Siu-Kui
A2 - Beer, Michael
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management, ICVRAM 2014 and the 6th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA 2014
Y2 - 13 July 2014 through 16 July 2014
ER -