T he great Midwestern flood of 1993 broke flow records along 1600 km of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and caused up to $16 billion in damages (1, 2). Formal reviews of U.S. flood-control policy, both before and after the 1993 flood, concluded that the optimum strategy for reducing flood losses is to limit or even reduce infrastructure on floodplains. New emphases on flood-damage preventio...

detention rockfill dams are accounted as economically efficient structures for flood control, river bed and banks protection, flow diversion, etc. as the hydraulic behavior of these structures, when are used for flood control, is affected by the depth of water in their porous media, there are interests to predict water surface profile through the body of these structures. in this research, we d...

Engineering Risk Analysis and Multi-Objective Decision-Making Under Risk are considered as a general framework for floodplain management and protection from extreme floods. Distinction is made between (a) the catchment or large scale planning and (b) the local or small scale design of protective measures. After defining the risk of flooding at different scales and multiple criteria for selectin...

There is a growing need for coastal and marine restoration, but it not clear how to pay given that environmental funding low, national budgets are stretched in response natural hazards. We use risk-industry methods find coral reef mangrove restoration could yield strong Return on Investment (ROI) flood risk reduction shorelines across more than 20 Caribbean countries. These results robust chang...

Due to the public good character of protective measures against natural disasters events, their allocation is very often in the realm of bureaucratic and expert agencies. Based on the economic theory of bureaucracy the behavior of a bureau providing the good ”protection against natural hazards” is analysed. The existing model is extended by further institutional constraints accounting for socie...