Economically Efficient Standards to Protect the Netherlands Against Flooding

References

• Baker R, ed. (1997) Environmental Law and Policy in the European Union and the United States (Praeger, Westport, CT).Google Scholar
• Bočkarjova M, Rietveld P, Verhoef ET (2012) Composite valuation of immaterial damage in flooding: Value of statistical life, value of statistical evacuation and value of statistical injury. Accessed September 24, 2013, http://papers.tinbergen.nl/12047.pdf.Google Scholar
• Brekelmans R, den Hertog D, Roos K, Eijgenraam C (2012) Safe dike heights at minimal costs: The nonhomogeneous case. Oper. Res. 60(6):1342–1355.Link, Google Scholar
• Chahim M, Brekelmans RCM, den Hertog D, Kort PM (2013) An impulse control approach to dike height optimization. Optim. Methods Software 28(3):458–477.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Delta Commissioner (2010) Working on the delta. Investing in a safe and attractive Netherlands, now and in the future. Accessed September 24, 2013, http://www.deltacommissaris.nl/english/news/videos/workingonthedelta.aspx.Google Scholar
• Delta Committee (2008) Working together with water: A living land builds for its future; Findings of the Deltacommissie 2008. Summary and conclusions. Accessed September 24, 2013, http://www.deltacommissie.com/doc/deltareport_summary.pdf.Google Scholar
• Duits MT (2011) OptimaliseRing: User guide of a numerical model for the economic optimization of flood risks of dike ring areas, V2.3. Report PR2136, HKV Consultants, Lelystad, the Netherlands.Google Scholar
• Duran M, Grossmann I (1986) An outer-approximation algorithm for a class of mixed-integer nonlinear programs. Math. Programming 36(3):307–339.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Eijgenraam CJJ (2005) Protection against flooding; Cost-benefit analysis for room for the river, part I. CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, the Netherlands.Google Scholar
• Eijgenraam CJJ (2007) From optimal to practical safety standards for dike-ring areas. Water Sci. Tech. 56(4):113–124.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Eijgenraam CJJ (2012) Efficient safety standards for dike-ring areas. Technical report 072, Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Environmental Protection, EU—China River Basin Management Programme, Beijing.Google Scholar
• Eijgenraam CJJ, Brekelmans RCM, den Hertog D, Roos K (2013) Flood prevention by optimal dike heightening. Accessed September 24, http://feweb.uvt.nl/pdf/TICOPT/flood-prevention.pdf.Google Scholar
• Galloway GE, Baecher GB, Plasencia D, Coulton KG, Louthain J, Bagha M, Levy AR (2006) Assessing the adequacy of the national flood insurance program’s 1 percent flood standard. Report, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC.Google Scholar
• Gauderis J, Kind J, Van Duinen R (2013) Robustness of economically efficient flood protection standards: Monte Carlo analysis on top of cost-benefit analysis. Klijn F, Schweckendiek T, eds. Comprehensive Flood Risk Management (Taylor & Francis Group, London), 851–858.Google Scholar
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2001) Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Houghton JT, Ding Y, Griggs DJ, Noguer M, van der Linden P, Dai X, Maskell K, Johnson CA, eds. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK).Google Scholar
• Katsman CA, Hazeleger W, Drijfhout SS, Van Oldenborgh GJ, Burgers G (2008) Climate scenarios of sea level rise for the northeast Atlantic Ocean: A study including the effects of ocean dynamics and gravity changes induced by ice melt. Climatic Change 91(3–4):351–374.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Kind J (2011) Cost-benefit analysis for flood protection in the 21st century. Report, Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands.Google Scholar
• Kind JM (2013) Economically efficient flood protection standards for the Netherlands. J. Flood Risk Management, ePub ahead of print January 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12026.Google Scholar
• Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (2010) Water act. Accessed September 24, 2013, http://www.helpdeskwater.nl/publish/pages/24783/wateract_total.pdf.Google Scholar
• Syvitski JPM, Kettner AJ, Overeem I, Hutton E, Hannon M, Brakenridge G, Day J, Vörösmarty C, Saito Y, Giosan L, Nicholls R (2009) Sinking deltas due to human activities. Nature Geoscience 2(10):681–686.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Van Dantzig D (1956) Economic decision problems for flood prevention. Econometrica 24(3):276–287.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Van Noortwijk JM, Kalk HJ, Duits MT, Chbab EH (2002) Bayesian statistics for flood prevention. Technical report, HKV Consultants and RIZA, Lelystad, the Netherlands.Google Scholar