Economic analysis of alternative flood control measures

James, L. Douglas

doi:10.1029/wr003i002p00333

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“…By dividing the horizon into shorter intervals, information regarding the timing of probable community growth may be utilized for the staging of management plans through time. The use of planning periods also permits greater advantage to be taken of the more ac- 10 Parametric programming can be very useful in this regard. Due to technical difficulties with our computer, we were not able to complete this phase of the model test.…”

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A Linear Programming Approach to Floodplain Land Use Planning in Urban Areas

Day

1973

American J Agri Economics

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Floodplain land use management is a new approach to flood loss prevention which will eomplement engineering works and lead to more intelligent use and development of urban floodplain areas. Land use management may be structured as an optimization problem. Nonlinear or dynamic programming is inappropriate, and a linear programming assignment model is shown to be capable of identifying constrained efficiency combinations of spatial and temporal urban floodplain use, site elevation through land fill, and Hoodproofing of buildings. Sensitivity testing, however, is required because of possible nonlinearities.T H E damaging effect of uncontrolled flooding is one of man's oldest land and water problems. Traditional methods for dealing with this natural threat have relied, for example, upon dams, levee systems, and floodwalls to regulate stream flow. However, engineering approaches are not capable of correcting all the physical and economic conditions that give rise to flood damage; alternatives to engineering structures exist. .Floodplain land use management is one alternative approach that might be taken [15,17,18,19]. :Modern planning thus seeks better solutions to the age-old problem by encouraging intelligent use and development of floodprone land as well as control of floodwater.A floodplain management plan bringing together regulation of land use through public administration and control of floodwater through engineering works is not easy to achieve. Difficulties occur at several levels: legal-what the law allows in the way of land use regulation; political-what can actually be accomplished in a particular flood hazard locale; administrative-e-who has the power to plan, implement, and enforce floodplain land use management practices; and last, technical-what difficulties relate to economic and engineering analysis of al ternatives.A basic problem in the design of comprehensive programs is the lack of suitable analytical methodology. James [10] was the first to work with a general methodology applicable to this particular type of problem. His approach is based upon an iterative routine for comparing discrete combinations of structural works and either urban or agricultural floodplain use. River areas are examined separately by reach for a series of time intervals. The value of land in urban vs. agricultural employment is used to compute the (opportunity) cost of land allocated to either one of the two choices. The objective of the routine is to minimize the cost of flood protection, residual flood loss, and the opportunity cost of land use. James was followed by Day [6] in the first effort to apply operations research techniques to the problem, the results of which are reported here. Much descriptive literature exists relating to the need for nonstructural planning [12,18,19,21,22] and to theoretical issues pertaining to economic criteria [13,15,20], but the work of James and of Day represents the current status of methodological research.Floodplain management involves. operating rules for the utilization of water...

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“…James [10] was the first to work with a general methodology applicable to this particular type of problem. His approach is based upon an iterative routine for comparing discrete combinations of structural works and either urban or agricultural floodplain use.…”

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A Linear Programming Approach to Floodplain Land Use Planning in Urban Areas

Day

1973

American J Agri Economics

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“…With one exception only, they apply in any case to conditions in the United States. One of the earliest items located is a 1967 article by James (1967). He applies engineering economics to alternative flood control measures.…”

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Prioritizing Water Management Projects in Southeast Asia: An Experimental Methodology

McLoughlin¹

1988

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Southeast Asian nations with extensive water management systems have numerous candidate and ongoing programs and projects. They cannot possibly all be funded and implemented simultaneously in any serious way. Choices must be made. But how to select? What criteria can assist with the screening in an acceptable manner, particularly in the near absence of useful technical and economic information across them all. This paper suggests a methodology by which assessment criteria can be constructed which conforms to any given national information base and development needs. Criteria can be weighted one against the other in their relative importance. For each criterion a ranking scale puts the “best” (most, highest) at one end and the “worst” (least, lowest) at the other. Each candidate project is then subjected to these consistent assessment methods for a weighted “score.” Key criteria normally have surrogate measures depending on information available. Criteria are of three sorts: sheer volume, e.g., of a specific use, a benefit; ratios and relations, e.g., A as percent of B; and other more subjective criteria, e.g., regional or income distribution impacts. The basic criteria include, for example, time to full benefits (minimize), OM & R as percent of investment (minimize), and permanent rural jobs created (maximize).

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“…The classical optimization models used in the earlier studies in floodplain management are enumeration (James 1967), recursive linear programming (Day 1970), linear programming (Bialas and Loucks 1978), dynamic programming (Morin et al 1989), branch-and-bound techniques (Ford and Oto 1989) and two-stage linear programming (Lund 2002). Some other recent investigations on flood plain management are as follows: Roughani et al (2007) presented an innovative methodology for spatial optimization of flood control measures based on sub-catchment locations with the objective of flood damage reduction.…”

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Development of Optimization Schemes for Floodplain Management; A Case Study

Karamouz

Abesi

Moridi

et al. 2008

Water Resour Manage

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In this paper, two optimization models are presented. The first model is developed to determine economical combination of permanent and emergency flood control options and the second one is used to determine the optimal crop pattern along a river based on the assigned flood control options by the first optimization model. The optimal combination of flood protection options is determined to minimize flood damages and construction cost of flood control options along the river using the genetic algorithm (GA) optimization model. In order to consider the effects of flood control options on hydraulic characteristics of flow, two hydrological routing models for the reservoir and the river are coupled with the optimization model. Discharge-elevation and elevation-damage curves obtained based on separate hydraulic simulations of the river are used for flood damage calculations in the optimization model. The parameters of a hydrologic river routing model are also calibrated using the developed hydraulic model results. The proposed model is applied to the Kajoo river in the south-eastern part of Iran. The results demonstrate an economical integration of permanent and emergency flood control options along the river which include minimum expected value of damages related to floods with different return periods and construction cost of flood control options. Finally the resulting protection scheme is used for land use planning through identifying the optimal crop mix along the river. In this approach, the objective function of M. Karamouz et al. the optimization model is an economic function with a probabilistic framework to maximize the net benefit of agricultural activities. The study exhibits the importance of floodplain management and land use planning to achieve the development goals in the river basins.

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Economic analysis of alternative flood control measures

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A Linear Programming Approach to Floodplain Land Use Planning in Urban Areas

A Linear Programming Approach to Floodplain Land Use Planning in Urban Areas

Prioritizing Water Management Projects in Southeast Asia: An Experimental Methodology

Development of Optimization Schemes for Floodplain Management; A Case Study

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