Analytical Methods and Approaches for Water Resources Project PlanningNational Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Ocean Studies Board, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee to Assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Methods of Analysis and Peer Review for Water Resources Project Planning, Panel on Methods and Techniques of Project Analysis National Academies Press, 2004. gada 30. aug. - 165 lappuses Analytical Methods and Approaches for Water Resources Project Planningis part of a larger study that was conducted in response to a request from the U.S. Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 for the National Academy of Sciences to review the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's peer review methods and analytical approaches. This report reviews the Corps' analytical procedures and planning methods, largely in the context of the federal Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies, also known as the Principles and Guidelines or "P and G" (P&G), as well as the Corps' Planning Guidance Notebook (PGN). |
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... navigation on our waterways. From that beginning, the Corps began a program of public works that has reshaped virtually all of the nation's river basins and coastal areas. Today we share in the benefits of those works: a reliable water ...
... navigation improvement, flood protection, coastal works, and other aspects of U.S. water resources management essentially since the founding of the republic. The Corps has gone through several phases in its extensive history. During the ...
... navigation. The U.S. Congress added several missions, including beach and hurricane protection, hydropower production, water supply, as well as ecosystem restoration (the latter responsibility was added in the 1990s), to the Corps work ...
... navigation channels. This results in conflicts when, for example, an endangered species' habitat requirements (e.g., a flow regime that includes high flows, low flows, and occasional overbank floods) clash with an authorization(s) for a ...
... navigate through this context. But a quest for greater credibility through the development and application of increasingly detailed analytical methods has resulted in those methods becoming a product in themselves, rather than serving ...
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3 Assessing Benefits and Costs of Corps Projects | 38 |
4 Stakeholder Participation | 73 |
5 Engineering | 87 |
6 A New National Water Management Framework | 98 |
7 Revising Corps of Engineers Planning Studies | 109 |
Appendixes | 127 |
Appendix A Water Resources Development Act 2000 Public Law No 106541 of the 106th Congress | 129 |
Appendix B Corps Divisions and Districts | 132 |
Appendix C Office of Management and Budgets Guidance on Nonmarket Valuation Techniques | 134 |
Appendix D Analysis of Nonstructural Flood Damage Reduction | 136 |
Appendix E Army Corps of Engineers Planning Center of Expertise | 138 |
Appendix F Rosters | 142 |
Appendix G Biographical Information of Panel Members and Staff | 147 |