Abstract
Design-criteria for flood-defences have a legal character in the Netherlands. Formerly, these flood protection standards were based on design-waterlevels, where a flood defence was implicitly supposed not to fail below this waterlevel. Since knowledge regarding dike-failure improved, a new risk approach has been developed based on a social cost-benefit analysis which addresses a monetary value to a (prevented) fatality. Also, loss of life is part of the risk analysis. The main improvement of the new approach is the explicit inclusion of failure probabilities in flood-risk calculations. A recent floodrisk study showed the risk of flooding for some regions in the Netherlands is larger than previously thought [Rijkswaterstaat 2015].
Original language | English |
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Pages | 148 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Event | 7th International Conference on Flood Management 2017 - Leeds, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sept 2017 → 7 Sept 2017 Conference number: 7 http://www.icfm7.org.uk/ |
Conference
Conference | 7th International Conference on Flood Management 2017 |
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Abbreviated title | ICFM7 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Leeds |
Period | 5/09/17 → 7/09/17 |
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