Assessment and management of risk in subsurface hydrology: A review and perspective

• Published in: Advances in water resources Vol. 51; pp. 247 - 260
• Main Author: Tartakovsky, Daniel M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Algorithms; Assessments; Computation; Decision making; Decision under uncertainty; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Engineering and environment geology. Geothermics; Exact sciences and technology; exposure assessment; exposure pathways; Hydrogeology; Hydrology; Hydrology. Hydrogeology; Pollution, environment geology; Probabilistic risk analysis; probabilistic risk assessment; probability analysis; Probability density functions; Risk; risk management; Stochastic optimization; Uncertainty; Uncertainty quantification; water resources; Uncertainty quantification; Probabilistic risk analysis; Decision under uncertainty; Stochastic optimization; algorithms; risk assessment; models; Decision making; decomposition; hydrogeology; subsurface; faults; management; optimization; uncertainties; theory; probability density function

► Review of probabilistic risk assessment and management in hydrogeology. ► Comprehensive treatment of parametric, geologic and model uncertainties. ► Review of decision-theoretic and stochastic optimization approaches to risk management. Uncertainty plagues every effort to model subsurface processe...