This volume is the outcome of a three year cooperation program between CFBR (Comité Français des Barrages et Réservoirs or French Committee on Large dams) and JCOLD and focusses on the dynamic behavior of concrete and embankment dams interpreted from the records of the data base of JCOLD.
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..