Journal
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
Volume 286, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106084
Keywords
Landslide; Debris flow; Remediation measures; Cost-benefit; Monetization
Funding
- Soil and Water Conservation Bureau, Taiwan [SWCB-108-294]
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [109-2124-M-865-001-]
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Ex-post benefit-cost assessment method was developed in this study to quantify the direct impact of remediation engineering measures for debris flows. Results from applying this methodology in southern Taiwan showed a range of benefit and cost ratio between 1.26 and 7.99, recommending its use for rapid screening of districts with low benefit-cost ratios.
Ex-ante and ex-post assessments are both essential in risk management, although ex-post assessments of engineering measures have not been widely reported. In this study, an ex-post benefit-cost assessment method was developed to enable the direct impact of remediation engineering measures for debris flows to be quantified. We propose three categories of parameters for calculating benefit and cost: (1) predicted benefits (comprising predicted benefits of saving lives, at the household level, and of infrastructure protection); (2) actual loss (of losing lives, at the household level, and of infrastructure); (3) actual cost of the engineering. Actual benefit was defined as predicted benefit minus loss after completion of the engineering measure. The engineering measures were regarded as effective when benefits outweighed costs. Government data, survey results based on past disasters, and interview results with specialists were used. This methodology was applied and tested in ten villages located in the Gaoping River Basin in southern Taiwan. The result showed that the range of the benefit and cost ratio was between 1.26 and 7.99. We recommend this ex-post assessment method for rapid screening of districts with low benefit-cost ratios.
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