- United States Army Corps Of Engineers USACE
- Public Domain Document
- Adobe PDF Format
- EM 1110-2-1619
- Pages: 61 – Date: August 1, 1996
Product Description
Risk involves exposure to a chance of injury or loss. The fact that risk inherently involves chance leads directly to a need to describe and to deal with uncertainty. Corps policy has long been (1) to acknowledge risk and the uncertainty in predicting floods and flood impacts, and (2) to plan accordingly. Historically, that planning relied on analysis of the expected long-term performance of flood-damage-reduction measures, on application of safety factors and freeb… More >>