Water Resources Engineering Risk Assessment

Preface.- Risk Analysis of Water Quantity and Quality Problems: The Engineering Approach.- 1 - Uncertainty Analysis of Hydrologic Inputs.- Risk Analysis of Hydrological Data Using Gamma Family and Derived Distributions.- Reliability in Regional Drought Studies.- Reliability in Groundwater Recharge and Quality Parameters.- Reliability in Remote Sensing of Oceanographic Characteristics.- On the Sampling Distribution of Exceedance Probabilities.- The Contribution of Long-Term Records of Hydrologic Extremes to Risk Analysis.- Paleoflood Records and Risk Assessment: Examples from the Colorado River Basin.- 2 - Quantification of Risks in Water Quantity and Quality Problems.- Stochastic Dynamic System Theory: A Challenge for Natural Resources Management.- Probabilistic Modelling of Water Quality in Rivers.- Risk in Coastal Pollution.- Probabilistic Simulation for Reliable Solute Source Identification in Heterogeneous Porous Media.- Bayesian Analysis of Robustness of Models in Water and Environmental Sciences.- Reliability with Fuzzy Elements in Water Quantity and Quality Problems.- 3 - Risk Management in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.- Consideration of Reliability in System Design for Ground Water Remediation.- Risk-Cost Analysis under Uncertainty of the Disposal of Contaminated Dredged Material.- Risk-Cost Aspects of Sea Level Rise and Climatic Change in the Evaluation of Shore Protection Projects.- Optimal Flood Warning Threshold and a Case Study in Milton, Pennsylvania.- Multicriterion Risk and Reliability Analysis in Hydrologic System Design.- Risk Management for Nitrate-Contaminated Groundwater under Imprecise Conditions.- Facing the Risk of Uncontrolled Denitrification in Sewage Treatment Plants.- 4 - Case Studies.- Stochastic Modeling of a Water Resources System: Analytical Techniques versus Synthetic Approaches.- Risk and Reliability in Predicting Droughts: the Use of Prehistoric Tree-Ring Data.- Reliability in Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling of Coastal Pollution: the Case of the Gambia Estuary.- Water Quality Risks in Istanbul. Past and Present Status.- Decisions with Multiple Environmental Objectives. The Siting of Oil Drilling Wells in Norway.- List of Participants.