Résumé :
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Dams constitute a basic patrimony of humanity and represent an essential element for the water supply, irrigation, hydropower, as also to mitigate the damages which the floods produce. Nevertheless, dams can also represent a potential hazard for the population downstream due to the very remote, but not impossible, probalility of their failure. For this reason, this symposium is a basic concept and a determinant question in the design of dams, in their construction and during their long operational life. This symposium presents the actual situation of the state-of-the-art and the new trends and guidelines on dam safety, offering an overall view of it developments and new technologies of application in this field. The book develops the themes referring to the legislation and guidelines on dam safety, structural safety, and hydrological safety which are important issues for the professionals, lawyers, dam safety managers and for the organizations with responsibility for public safety.
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