Debating dams: The World Commission on Dams 20 years on

Dams and Development a New F R a Mework the Report of the World Commission on Dams

A watershed in global governance? An independent assessment of the World Commission on Dams.

Current Seismic Safety Requirements for Large Dams and Their Implication on Existing Dams

Large dams, especially concrete dams, have been designed against earthquakes since the construction of Hoover dam in the 1930s. The design criteria and methods of analysis used in those times are outdated today and the actual seismic safety of these structures is not known in view of today’s requirements. Earthquake action was usually taken into account pseudostatically, through an inertia forc...

Dams and Storage Reservoirs

On the Cycle Maximum of Mountains, Dams and Queues

We determine the distribution of the maximum level of the workload in some queueing, dam and storage processes. The models under consideration are the following. (i) The Markov mountain: a storage or dam model that alternates between exponentially distributed ON and OFF periods. The buffer content increases (decreases) at some state-dependent rate when ON (OFF). (ii) The semi-Markov mountain: a...