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Chapter 6: FLOOD PREVENTION SCHEMES: GUIDANCE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES - APPROACHES TO RISK

CONTENTS

1 Introduction
Scope of guidance
Background to risk assessment
Advantages of risk assessment and risk management
General aspects of risk
2 Using risk assessment within project appraisal
Introduction
Risk assessment framework
Approaches
Risk registers
Dealing with climate change
3 More specialised tools and techniques
Introduction
Event and fault trees
Multi-criteria approaches
Sensitivity testing
Assessing probabilities
Probabilistic discounting
4 Choosing and communicating
Option selection
Presentation of results
References
Glossary of terms
Annex A: Identification of risks