Review article: climate change impacts on dam safety

Description: 

"Abstract. Dams as well as protective dikes and levees are critical infrastructures whose associated risk must be properly managed in a continuous and updated process. Usually, dam safety management has been carried out assuming stationary 10 climatic and non-climatic conditions. However, the projected alterations due to climate change are likely to affect different factors driving dam risk. Although some reference institutions develop guidance for including climate change in their decision support strategies, related information is still vast and scattered and its application to specific analyses such as dam safety assessments remains a challenge. This article presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of the impacts of climate change susceptible to affect 15 dam safety. The global effect can be assessed through the integration of the various projected effects acting on each aspect of the risk, from the input hydrology to the calculation of the consequences of the flood wave on population and assets at risk. This will provide useful information for dam owners and dam safety practitioners in their decision-making process."

Creator/author: 

Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín , Luis Altarejos-García , Adrián Morales-Torres , Ignacio Escuder-Bueno

Source/publisher: 

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Date of Publication: 

2018-05-18

Date of entry: 

2018-06-21

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  • Individual Documents

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Language: 

English