The Italian Committee on Large Dam has the pleasure to announce the Call for Papers to the 9th ICOLD European Club Symposium on "Sharing Experience for Safe and Sustainable Water Storage".
The Symposium will be a great opportunity for engineers, experts and authorities who operate in the dam sector to discuss scientific and technical issues concerning preservation, development, management and governance of large dams.
We hope you will join us in this event, your scientific contribution will be highly appreciated. |
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| We invite you to contribute a paper on one or more of the following Topics: |
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Water resources management in Europe
Topic contents: multiple use of water resources; analysis of water demand; long-range
hydraulic interconnections; integrated water management; sustainable management
and cost recovery; dam-break analyses; emergency planning; climate change effects on
water resource management. |
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Preservation and development of European hydraulic infrastructure system
Topic contents: maintenance, rehabilitation, surveillance, and monitoring; management
of siltation; upsizing existing schemes; use of new materials; construction of new hydro
plants; refurbishment, modernization and maintenance of existing plants; preservation
of historical dams; decommissioning; preservation and sustainability of know-how and
transfer between generations. |
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An outlook to the future of dams and hydropower: the new challenges
Topic contents: interaction between renewable energy plants, storage, and electric grid;
pumped storage hydropower plants; climate change effects on energy production;
smart grids to balance the variability in renewable electricity supplies; innovative
partnership to manage the complex components of the "system response". |
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Social/environmental impacts vs. benefits of reservoirs: a still open question
Topic contents: sustainability; public awareness, management of conflicts and needs to
improve communication; minimum ecological flow, upstream and downstream continuity
facilities, hydropeaking mitigation, sediment/bedload transport; multipurpose
reservoirs; climate change effects on river flow; role of storage in flood mitigation. |
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Towards improving and harmonizing dams governance in Europe
Topic contents: risk analysis; tolerability and acceptance of risk; critical infrastructures;
regulations and guidelines for dam safety & security management; bridging the gap
from "science" to "practical needs" to cope with inherent risks; new seismic maps
crossing European borders for national seismic hazards; application of European
Directives in the water sector and development of Eurocodes; new trends for renewal
of hydroelectic licence policy. |
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• All abstracts should be submitted byJuly 15th, 2012
• Acknowledgement will be given from the Scientific Committee
• The full paper should be submitted by December 20th, 2012
The paper can of course be submitted, within the given deadline (December 20th, 2012), even if
the abstract has not been uploaded, obviously accepting the possibility that the paper
could raise some comments.
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Authors who intend to submit a paper are kindly requested to upload an abstract on the reserved area.
Please click here to access and upload your document. |
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| Instructions to authors for abstracts |
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Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 300 words.
All abstracts should be uploaded in PDF format.
Please click here to get the abstract template. |
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| Instructions to authors for full papers |
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Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages in length.
All papers should be uploaded in PDF format.
Please click here to get detailed instructions and template. |
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For any clarification or further information, you can contact the Scientific Committee at
scientific-committee@2013eurdamsymposium.it |
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