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RISFloods, Lawsuits, and Water Infrastructure Management
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Climate change and land development are causing more flood damage in the United States, which leads to more litigation. This is a rising concern to USACE, which owns many dams, levees, and river training structures that ...
Uncertainty and Legal Foreseeability in Flood Risk Management
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: The legal concept of foreseeability is an important element of proof in flood loss litigation against the US Army Corps of Engineers. Although hydrologic forecasting and engineering uncertainty address foreseeability, the ...
Assessing the Functionality of Transboundary Water Compacts, Decrees, and Agreements in the United States
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: As development proceeds, transboundary water conflicts will intensify due to new dams, diversions, and urbanization, as well as climate change and lack of cooperation. Water treaties, compacts, decrees, and agreements will ...
Infrastructure Report Card: Purpose and Results
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Institutional Analysis of Drinking Water Supply Failure: Lessons from Flint, Michigan
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Case Studies to Connect Disciplines for Water Management Education
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Infrastructure Stimulus Spending: Lessons for Assessment and Engineering Education
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Broad, Global, and Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering Education
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Discussion of “<i>Civil Engineering Education: Case Study Approach</i>” by Jeffrey S. Russell and Bob G. McCullouch (April, 1990, Vol. 116, No. 2)
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Water Main Breaks: Risk Assessment and Investment Strategies
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Replacement to sustain the integrity of water mains in the United States is on a cycle of approximately once in 200 years, a slow rate that contributes to the current grade of D- on the Infrastructure Report Card. The main ...