Risk and Reliability in Water Resources Management: Theory and Practice
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This is scheduled to be the closing talk of the Third Kovacs Colloquium on "Risk, Reliability, Uncertainty and Robustness in Water Resources Systems". In its final form, it will attempt to capture and summarize the lessons and conclusions to be derived from the lectures and discussions at the Colloquium. The emphasis in the final paper will be on the state of the art in the theory of risk and reliability in water resources management, and on whether and how it finds its way into practice.
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