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Hydraulics Of Spillways And Energy Dissipators
Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 259.95A comprehensive treatise on spillways and energy dissipators. This book reviews research and design advances pertaining to spillways, energy dissipators, cavitation and air entrainment, and hydraulic modeling - emphasizing the hydraulics of various types of spillways and energy dissipators, and applications and solutions to design challenges. more...
Dam-Break Problems, Solutions and Case Studies
WIT Press 2009; US$ 280.00This book gives an up-to-date review on dam-break problems, along with the main theoretical background and the practical aspects involved in dam failures, design of flood defence structures, prevention measures and the environmental, social, economic, and forensic aspects related to the topic. Moreover, an exhaustive range of laboratory tests and modelling... more...
Ten Years of Water Sector Reform in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 44.00This report evaluates how well EECCA countries have done in ensuring peoples access to adequate water supply and sanitation services since their Economic, Finance, and Environment Ministers adopted the Almaty Guiding Principles to support such efforts in 2000. Besides looking at trends in the technical and financial performance of the water sector,... more...
Hydraulics of Dam and River Structures
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 239.95This book comprises the papers of the International Conference on Hydraulics of Dams and Rivers Structures, held in Tehran, 26-28 April 2004. The topics covered include air-water flows, intakes and outlets, hydrodynamic forces, energy dissipators, stepped spillways, scouring and sedimentation around structures, numerical approaches in river hydrodynamics,... more...
Specialty Construction Techniques for Dam and Levee Remediation
CRC Press 2012; US$ 165.00Dams and levees provide huge support or protection for infrastructure. They may be expensive to maintain but the cost of ignoring them can be vastly greater, as the aftermath of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina showed. System design flaws necessitate a major programme of renewal and remediation, which for Katrina alone is expected to cost around eighty billion... more...
Erosion in Geomechanics Applied to Dams and Levees
Wiley 2013; US$ 175.00Erosion is the most common cause of failures at earth-dams, dikes and levees, whether through overtopping and overflowing, or internal erosion and piping. This book is dedicated to the phenomenon of internal erosion and piping. It is not intended to be exhaustive on the subject, but brings together some of the latest international research and advances.... more...
Working with water in medieval Europe
BRILL 2000; US$ 241.00A comprehensive survey of the techniques people used to harness, and defend themselves from, water in Western Christendom from 500-1500, each chapter of this volume sets the technologies of fishing, land drainage, irrigation, flood control, and water supply within a social and cultural context. more...
Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management
World Bank Publications 2011; US$ 14.99This Handbook offers 'how to' ideas to help infrastructure practitioners identify good practice improvements in communication, starting with the World Bank?s own expanding portfolio of dam projects. In-depth case studies prepared for this Handbook show the considerable scope, value added, and many practical reasons to link governance, sustainability,... more...
The Future of Large Dams
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority. Employing the Commission's Seven Strategic priorities, Scudder charts... more...









