Print Email Facebook Twitter Economically efficient flood protection levels Title Economically efficient flood protection levels: Effects of system interdepencies Author Dupuits, E.J.C. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Contributor Kothuis, Baukje (editor) Kok, Matthijs (editor) Date 2017 Abstract In the Netherlands, economic cost-benefit analysis plays an important role when deciding on safety levels for flood defenses. The cost of increasing the safety level is weighed against the reduction in flood risk (the benefit). The optimal level occurs where the sum of the cost and benefits is at its minimum; this is shown graphically in Figure 2. However, when conditions change over time, due to for example economic growth, the optimal safety levels change as well. This is illustrated in Figure 3. An in-depth description of the current use of cost-benefit analyses in the Netherlands can be found in Kind (2014). To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:526cace9-7b68-43fb-adf3-ba0ea166768b Publisher Delft University Publishers ISBN 978-94-6186-808-4 Source Integral Design of Multifunctional Flood Defenses: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Examples Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2017 E.J.C. Dupuits Files PDF Kothuis_Kok_2017_15.pdf 316.22 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:526cace9-7b68-43fb-adf3-ba0ea166768b/datastream/OBJ/view