Author: Guy J.-M. Le MoignePublisher: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9786610014606
Category : Dam safety
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Dam Safety and the Environment
Author: Guy J.-M. Le MoignePublisher: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9786610014606
Category : Dam safety
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
DAM SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
Author: World BankDam Safety and the Environment
Author: Shawki BarghoutiPublisher: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9781280014604
Category : Dam safety
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Deep Water
Author: Jacques LesliePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374707855
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
"If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water." -Ismail Serageldin, The World Bank The giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated water, and environmental and social disaster. With Deep Water, Jacques Leslie offers a searching account of the current crisis over dams and the world's water. An emerging master of long-form reportage, Leslie makes the crisis vivid through the stories of three distinctive figures: Medha Patkar, an Indian activist who opposes a dam that will displace thousands of people in western India; Thayer Scudder, an American anthropologist who studies the effects of giant dams on the peoples of southern Africa; and Don Blackmore, an Australian water manager who struggles to reverse the effects of drought so as to allow Australia to continue its march to California-like prosperity. Taking the reader to the sites of controversial dams, Leslie shows why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape. Deep Water is an incisive, beautifully written, and deeply disquieting report on a conflict that threatens to divide the world in the coming years.
Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety
Author: Flood Evaluation and Dam Safety
Author: CIGB ICOLDPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351031082
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Hydrology and dams are two fields that are obviously closely related. Four bulletins have so far been published by the Committee: Selection of Design Flood – Current methods, Dams and Floods – Guidelines and cases histories, Role of Dams in Flood Mitigation – A review and Integrated Flood Management. These bulletins have essentially addressed floods, the risks they represent and their significance for the concerned populations. The present Bulletin deviates slightly from this path, adopting a somewhat more technical perspective. The text consists of three chapters, conceived to be accessible to the practitioners.
Safety of Dams
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309035325
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
From earth tectonics and meteorology to risk, responsibility, and the role of government, this comprehensive and detailed book reviews current practices in designing dams to withstand extreme hydrologic and seismic events. Recommendations for action and for further research to improve dam safety evaluations are presented.
Regulatory Frameworks for Dam Safety
Author: Alessandro PalmieriPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821351915
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
"Examines the dam safety regulatory frameworks of 22 countries" and "identifies essential elements, desirable features, and emerging trends for dam safety regulatory frameworks." - cover.
Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309256143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Although advances in engineering can reduce the risk of dam and levee failure, some failures will still occur. Such events cause impacts on social and physical infrastructure that extend far beyond the flood zone. Broadening dam and levee safety programs to consider community- and regional-level priorities in decision making can help reduce the risk of, and increase community resilience to, potential dam and levee failures. Collaboration between dam and levee safety professionals at all levels, persons and property owners at direct risk, members of the wider economy, and the social and environmental networks in a community would allow all stakeholders to understand risks, shared needs, and opportunities, and make more informed decisions related to dam and levee infrastructure and community resilience. Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience: A Vision for Future Practice explains that fundamental shifts in safety culture will be necessary to integrate the concepts of resilience into dam and levee safety programs.
Dams and Public Safety
Author: Robert B. JansenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description