Print Email Facebook Twitter Risk and Uncertainty Analysis for Sustainable Urban Water Systems Title Risk and Uncertainty Analysis for Sustainable Urban Water Systems Author Khatri, K.B. Contributor Vairavamoorthy, K. (promotor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2013-05-01 Abstract Long-term future planning is not a new approach in urban water management (UWM). However, the conventional ‘stationary approach’ of infrastructure planning and decision-making, where the future is assumed as the continuation of historical observation, will not work in the rapidly changing environment. This is because the current and future change pressures, such as climate change, urbanisation, population growth, deterioration of infrastructure systems, and changes in socioeconomic conditions are always uncertain. Uncertainty in future change pressures stems from two quite different sources: incomplete knowledge and unknowable knowledge. Incomplete knowledge is due to lack of information and understanding of a system. Unknowable knowledge is due to the inherent indeterminacy of future human societies and both natural and built systems. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:68bfa4e9-19c6-45dc-9300-6d283e43ce4c Publisher CRC Press/Balkema ISBN 978-1-138-00096-4 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2013 Khatri, K.B. Files PDF UNESCO-IHE_PHD_KHATRI_THESIS.pdf 7.01 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:68bfa4e9-19c6-45dc-9300-6d283e43ce4c/datastream/OBJ/view