RISK-COST OPTIMIZATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY FOR DREDGED MATERIAL DISPOSAL

Disposal of contaminated dredged material may pose risks to ecological and human populations. These risks are highly uncertain. Measures to confine the dredged material and reduce these risks are likely to increase disposal costs. Risk and cost assessments for dredged material management alternatives often are associated with very large uncertainties. These uncertainties must be explicitly incorporated into risk-cost analysis to ensure that appropriate management alternatives are selected. However, considering these uncertainties may cause difficulties in decision making by making management alternatives effectively indistinguishable. A risk-cost analysis methodology that evaluates uncertainty directly in the decision framework is developed. A multicriteria decision-making method that incorporates uncertainties using fuzzy set theory is proposed to trade-off risks and costs (including uncertainties) so that disposal alternatives can be compared and selected.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Stansbury, J
  • Bogardi, I
  • Stakhiv, E Z
• Publication Date: 1999-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 342-351
• Serial:
  • Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management
  • Volume: 125
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9496

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Alternatives analysis; Contaminants; Costs; Decision making; Dredged materials; Ecology; Fuzzy sets; Hazard evaluation; Hazardous materials; Materials management; Mathematical models; Optimization; Pollutants; Risk assessment; Risk management; Sensitivity analysis; Waste disposal
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00779607
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 6 1999 12:00AM