Two centuries of experience in water resources management
Subtitle: a Dutch-U.S. retrospective
By: editors, John Lonnquest, Bert Toussaint, Joe Manous Jr., Maurits Ertsen
Publisher: Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Alexandria, Virginia; Utrecht?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Water resources development; History; Water-supply; Management; Waterhuishouding; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Netherlands. Rijkswaterstaat
Notes: Shipping list no: 2015-0235-P.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Bert Toussaint and William F. Willingham; title: Dutch water management in an era of revolution, restoration and the advance of liberalism, 1795-1850 / by Toon Bosch; title: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the evolution of navigation practice and policy, 1800-1865 / by Matthew T. Pearcy; title: Large-scale projects in a liberal era, 1850-1900 / by Eric Berkers; title: U.S. Army engineers in the era of single-purpose waterway improvements, 1865-1900 / by Leland R. Johnson; title: From projects to systems: the emergence of a national hydraulic technocracy, 1900-1970 / by Nil Disco and Bert Toussaint; title: U.S. era of progressivism and large public works, 1900-1970 / by William F. Willingham; title: Environmentalism, renewed concern for flood safety, and the Europeanization of Dutch water policies, 1970-2010 / by Wim van Leussen and Sander Meijerink; title: The U.S. moves towards more integrative approaches to water resources management, 1970-2010 / by William F. Willingham; title: Two centuries of Dutch and U.S. experience: comparative perspective / by Bert Toussaint and William F. Willingham.