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Dams Safety and Society (Hardcover)
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Dams Safety and Society (Hardcover)
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This book addresses current international practices applied for dam
safety assessments by looking at a portfolio of dam safety projects
in various developing countries (Armenia, Georgia, Tajikistan,
Mauritius, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Vietnam) spread
across three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia). Safety
assessment involved the review of 134 existing dams and comparison
with the best international practices. A large part of dam safety
assessment involves understanding of dam hazards, standards applied
in the design and maintenance, as well as expectation and social
circumstances under which the dams have been designed and
constructed in a particular country. For example, standards for
design floods, ground investigation, selection of design soil
parameters and design earthquakes etc. used are often either
non-existent or inadequate, which could lead to an unsafe design.
If there are no standards to be applied in dam design and
construction, consultants are often under pressure from clients to
come up with minimalistic investigation and designs, which, after a
few years after dam construction, show signs of deficiencies. Very
often countries have no regulations and standards for requirements
that should cover the maintenance and operation of dams. The book
also describes the Portfolio Risk Assessment of Dams, which can be
used as a tool by clients and the funding agencies to identify
priority assessment and rehabilitation projects that consider
societal and economic losses. It also demonstrates how the
implementation of Emergency Preparedness Planning could
significantly reduce the number of people at risk. This book aims
to help clients, consultants and funding agencies which are engaged
in dam safety assessment projects in developing countries to focus
on issues that are based on past lessons learnt.
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