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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0747.00041.] This paper consisting of four sections is concerned with Hamiltonian structure and stability analysis. Introduction 1 is an introduction to the four interrelated concepts of stability of an equilibrium solution for a conservative dynamical system. In Section 2 the author recapitulates the general algorithm for proving stability found by the author et al. (1985). Section 3 illustrates the application of the stability algorithm for the planar barotropic fluid flow example first treated by the author et al. (1983) and indicates how the stability criteria for the ideal hydrostatic model can be obtained by analogous calculations. Finally, Section 4 provides the Hamiltonian framework for discussing Lyapunov stability of equilibrium solutions for a new set of shallow water equations with nonlinear dispersion due to Basdenkov, Morosov, and Pogutse (1985) (see also the author (1988)). A complete discussion of the stability of such shallow water equilibria with nonlinear dispersion has not yet been performed, although Basdenkov, Morosov, and Pogutse (1985) indicated that nonlinear dispersion may, in fact, cause the loss of formal stability.