the analysis will allow us to present the
outline for a new, potentially more robust and
comprehensive design process. The outline as
presented here consists of principles, phases and
their interior steps, and tools for participation
processes.
We will now turn to the various elements of the
potential new guide. We will start by presenting the
principles of design, followed by the steps and tools
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within river basins, and justifiably or
not, they generally have considered natural
change and variability to be sufficiently
small to allow stationarity-based design.
In view of the magnitude and ubiquity of
the hydroclimatic change apparently now
under way, however, we assert that stationarity
is dead and should no longer serve as a central,
default assumption in water-resource risk
assessment
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The design of avalanche protection dams
Recent practical and theoretical developments
28.7.2009
Snow avalanches represent a serious problem for society. An adequate level of avalanche safety is a prerequisite to further development
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26 October 2012
ESC statement on L’Aquila sentence
The European Seismological Commission (ESC) as a Commission of the
International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior
(IASPEI) endorses and adheres to the IASPEI Press Release on the L'Aquila
sentence (http://www.iaspei.org/news_items/laquila_IASPEI_press_release_final.pdf
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depends on adaptive institutions (Pahl-Wostl
2002) that are able to cope with complexity and uncertainty
and to face new challenges such as climate change.
However, in technology-dominated water management
practice, design and structure of governance regimes has
not played a prominent role. Adaptive and integrated water
resources management implies a real paradigm shift in
water management from what can
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et. al., 2008).
Such changes can influence the design and management of stormwater systems. Most of the current
climate change studies have not analyzed short duration precipitation which is needed for stormwater
system design. The objectives of this project are first to investigate whether changes in short duration
extreme precipitation have occurred in Reykjavík in the past decades
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lake in a volcanic caldera in the interior of the Vatnajökull ice cap (Björns-
son, 1988). Jökulhlaups from Grímsvötn have been known since at least the fourteenth
century (Þórarinsson, 1939, 1974). In the beginning of the twentieth century there were
about ten years between outbursts but the floods diminished with time and became
more frequent. After a catastrophic, rapidly rising flood caused
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The framework used by Hare et al. (2003), for example,
categorized participatory modelling case studies according to purpose and the participatory structure of the case
study (i.e. the potential number of relevant stakeholders involved, the organizational levels at which they operate,
the local political structure, and the actual stakeholders used in the model’s co-design group). The purpose
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will be improved
• Uncertainties will be explored further
• Improved methodology to cope with impacts of lake regulation in a changing climate will be
developed
• More detailed dam safety analyses will be carried out as comparative design studies between nations
• A more intense user dialogue will be developed
Focus of the Hydropower-Hydrology group of CES
A wide range of conditions are covered
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