Studies in the Area of Global Change Reported from V. Tsimopoulou and Co-Researchers (Economic optimization of flood prevention systems in the…
Studies in the Area of Global Change Reported from V. Tsimopoulou and Co-Researchers (Economic optimization of flood prevention systems in
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Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "One of the major priorities considered, is the need to address three issues, namely: (1) expressing the protection standards as failure probabilities of the flood defences, i.e. probabilities of breaching, instead of exceedance frequencies of water levels that is currently the case, (2) taking into account a spatial variability of those failure probabilities, and (3) considering various flooding scenarios. These aspects have been comprehensively addressed within a national flood risk analysis project, and partly considered in a numerical cost-benefit analysis approach, developed for the determination of new protection standards in
According to the news editors, the research concluded: "The approach can assist in the determination of new protection standards in
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