Reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability criteria for water resource system performance evaluation
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Water Resources Research
- Vol. 18 (1) , 14-20
- https://doi.org/10.1029/wr018i001p00014
Abstract
Three criteria for evaluating the possible performance of water resource systems are discussed. These measures describe how likely a system is to fail (reliability), how quickly it recovers from failure (resiliency), and how severe the consequences of failure may be (vulnerability). These criteria can be used to assist in the evaluation and selection of alternative design and operating policies for a wide variety of water resource projects. The performance of a water supply reservoir with a variety of operating policies illustrates their use.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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