Eighth Engineering Foundation Conference on Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources

9708558 Haimes由工程基金会组织的关于"水资源中基于风险的决策"的第8次会议将于1997年10月12日至17日在加州的圣巴巴拉举行。 会议的主要目的是审查风险/效益分析的最新技术，探讨风险/效益分析在水资源规划和管理中的应用，包括水文极端情况，在各利益相关者之间交流信息，并确定未来的研究活动。 将讨论的一些问题是：水厂安全和灾难性和极端事件的风险;如何处理数据、模型和预测中的不确定性及其如何影响水资源管理;风险分析的进展。 这是一个对减轻自然和人为灾害以及地区和国家的健康经济发展非常重要的研究领域。 ***

9708558 Haimes The 8th Conference on "Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources" organized by the Engineering Foundation will take place in Santa Barbara, California, on October 12-17, 1997. The main objectives of the conference is to examine the state-of-the- art in risk/benefit analysis, to explore the use of risk/benefit analysis in water resources planning and management including hydrologic extremes, to exchange information among various stake- holders, and to identify future research activities. Some of the issues that will be discussed are: water-works safety and risk of catastrophic and extreme events; how to deal with uncertainties in data, models and forecasts and how they influence the management of water resources; advances in risk analysis. This is a research area of great importance for the mitigation of natural and man-made hazards and for the sound economic development of regions and the Nation. ***