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Keynote Lecture: Risk-Based Design of Flood Defense Systems

Author(s): Yeou-Koung Tung

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Keywords: Flood defense system; Risk; Natural disasters

Abstract: Flood is one of the major natural disasters that threatens many human lives and causes significant economic losses globally every year. The design and performance analysis of a flood defense system are complex decision-making processes involving multiple criteria and uncertainties. This paper presents an over view of risk-based design procedure and offers possible means to extend from its present form of application to multi-criteria decision-making framework.

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Year: 2002

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