Recursos hídricos e as incertezas científicas: novos conceitos e abordagens

Abstract

The present paper intends to study the uncertainties embodied in Water Resources field. The sources of uncertainty are identified and uncertainty, itself, is classified according to different methodologies. There is not a inttention to present a comprehensive list of the existent literature, once the study of uncertainties, in the most varied fields, have been receiving growing attention in the last decade. Enormous quantity of books and papers are being written about this subject all over the world. The main objective is to present the study of the uncertainties in a clear and didactic way, starting from the general and coming to the specific, in the attempt of synthesizing the state-of-art of uncertainties in Water Resources field, and more specifically, in the evaluations of the a reservoir’s water availability.