Published papers

Reference: Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Altarejos-García, L., Morales-Torres, A., and Escuder-Bueno, I. (2018). Review article: Climate change impacts on dam safety. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(9), 2471–2488.

This paper contains a complete literature review of the multidisciplinary impacts of climate change affecting dam safety.

Reference: Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Morales-Torres, A., Escuder-Bueno, I., and Paredes-Arquiola, J. (2019). Quantification of climate change impact on dam failure risk under hydrological scenarios: a case study from a Spanish dam. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 19(10), 2117–2139.

This paper presents a procedure for the calculation of climate change impacts on the safety of dams under hydrological scenarios, i.e. where the floods are the main loads to which the dam is subjected.

Reference: Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Escuder-Bueno, I., Morales-Torres, A., and Castillo-Rodríguez, J. T. (2020). Comprehensive decision-making approach for managing time dependent dam risks. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 203, 107100.

This paper deals with dam risk management in the long term considering the potential evolution of risk with time. A new risk reduction indicator is defined for quantitative assessment of the long-term efficiency of risk reduction measures: the Aggregated Adjusted Cost per Statistical Life Saved (AACSLS).

Reference: Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Escuder-Bueno, I., Morales-Torres, A., and Castillo-Rodríguez, J. T. (2021). Accounting for climate change uncertainty in long-term dam risk management. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147(4), 04021012.
The Multi-Prior Weighted Scenarios Ranking method is presented in this paper, an innovative approach for dam risks adaptation under the influence of climate uncertainty. This approach is based on robust decision-making strategies coupled with climate scenario probability assignation.