東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Risks, challenges, tradeoffs, and op...

Zeff, Harrison B.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Risks, challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities in dynamic, adaptive water supply systems.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Risks, challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities in dynamic, adaptive water supply systems./
Author:	Zeff, Harrison B.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	136 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11B(E).
Subject:	Water resources management. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10119760
ISBN:	9781339809519

Risks, challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities in dynamic, adaptive water supply systems.
Zeff, Harrison B.

Risks, challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities in dynamic, adaptive water supply systems. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 136 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.

The rising costs and regulatory burdens associated with new water supply infrastructure are making it increasingly difficult to meet growing water demands through the development of new supply capacity. Instead, adaptive techniques such as temporary conservation and water transfers are playing a larger role in the water supply planning. While adaptive techniques have many advantages over infrastructure-centric approaches, they also present municipal water utilities with a number of challenges. This dissertation aims to formulate problems that illustrate the tradeoffs between multiple management objectives and help utilities meet performance criteria through the use of novel tools and methods. While this work focuses mostly on a group of interconnected water utilities in the 'Research Triangle' North Carolina, the results are generalizable to water supply problems across many regional scenarios.

ISBN: 9781339809519Subjects--Topical Terms:

794747
Water resources management.

Risks, challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities in dynamic, adaptive water supply systems.
LDR:03519nmm a2200313 4500 001 2120924
005 20170724102928.5
008 180830s2016 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781339809519
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10119760
035 $a AAI10119760
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Zeff, Harrison B. $3 3282892
245 1 0 $a Risks, challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities in dynamic, adaptive water supply systems.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2016
300 $a 136 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: B.
500 $a Adviser: Gregory W. Characklis.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.
520 $a The rising costs and regulatory burdens associated with new water supply infrastructure are making it increasingly difficult to meet growing water demands through the development of new supply capacity. Instead, adaptive techniques such as temporary conservation and water transfers are playing a larger role in the water supply planning. While adaptive techniques have many advantages over infrastructure-centric approaches, they also present municipal water utilities with a number of challenges. This dissertation aims to formulate problems that illustrate the tradeoffs between multiple management objectives and help utilities meet performance criteria through the use of novel tools and methods. While this work focuses mostly on a group of interconnected water utilities in the 'Research Triangle' North Carolina, the results are generalizable to water supply problems across many regional scenarios.
520 $a Adaptive techniques like conservation and the purchase of water transfers introduce substantial and unpredictable reductions in revenue (conservation) and cost increases (transfers). Municipal water provision is extremely capital-intensive with large, fixed costs driven by debt service payments. Increased levels of financial risk may affect the ability of a utility to meet debt service payments, reducing their credit rating and increasing the cost of future borrowing. Chapter 2 explores the role of financial mitigation tools in drought management strategies employing both conservation and water transfer purchases. Using multiple problem formulations, we show how the tradeoffs between financial risk and several other management objectives are affected by self-insurance contingency funds and a novel type of third-party index insurance. Pricing incentives (i.e. drought surcharges) can also serve as a financial mitigation tool while simultaneously promoting more efficient conservation. Chapter 3 examines how the additional revenue raised through surcharges may reduce utility incentives to purchase water transfers, potentially harming overall consumer welfare. In Chapter 4, the short-term management strategies developed in Chapters 2 and 3 are integrated into a long-term infrastructure sequencing model. Important interactions between management and planning decisions are incorporated using an adaptive, risk-based framework. This dissertation demonstrates how the added complexity involved with developing adaptive decision-making tools will be crucial to water resource problems in the 21st century.
590 $a School code: 0153.
650 4 $a Water resources management. $3 794747
650 4 $a Engineering. $3 586835
650 4 $a Finance. $3 542899
690 $a 0595
690 $a 0537
690 $a 0508
710 2 $a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. $b Environmental Sciences and Engineering. $3 2104684
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 77-11B(E).
790 $a 0153
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2016
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10119760