Harry E. Schwarz and the Development of Water Resources and Environmental Planning : Planning Methods in an Era of Challenge and Change.

Front Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Maass-White Library Series in Water Planning and Management -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The purpose and plan of the volume -- Chapter 2: Harry E. Schwarz: Personal biography -- Chapter 3: The engineering background: Water planning, hydrology, computers, and the Corps of Engineers from WWII to 1960 -- Introduction -- Destruction and Protection of Dams and Levees -- Determination of Flood Frequencies in a Major Drainage Basin -- Chapter 4: The development of planning methods: The Potomac Study, the Susquehanna, and the Harvard Water Program -- Introduction -- Comprehensive, Multiple Purpose Water Resources Development -- Environmental Considerations in Potomac River Planning -- The Potomac River Basin Study: Planning Objectives -- Susquehanna River Basin Study Plan: A Review of Alternatives -- Chapter 5: New planning methods: The North Atlantic Regional (NAR) Study -- Introduction -- NAR Planning: An Overview -- Multiobjectives: Visual and Cultural -- Water Resources Systems Symposium Introduction -- The NAR Study: A Case Study in System Analysis -- Model for Estimating Regional Water Needs -- North Atlantic Regional Supply Model -- Impact of Systems Techniques on the Planning Process -- Chapter 6: The Northeastern United States Water Supply Study -- Introduction -- Scope of the NEWS Study -- Northeastern United States Water Supply Study, Washington Metropolitan Area Water Supply Study Report -- Northeastern United States Water Supply Study, NEWS Summary Report: Appendix, Part 1, Hudson River Project, Main Report -- Chapter 7: Reflections on water and environmental planning -- Introduction -- Water Resources Planning-Its Recent Evolution -- Response: Effects of Urbanization on Streams -- The North Atlantic Regional Study.

On the Origins of Innovative Planning -- Chapter 8: New challenges: Water quality, climate change and water supply, and groundwater contamination -- Introduction -- An Evaluation of the Corps of Engineers Pilot Wastewater Studies Program-Perspectives on the Future of Water Quality -- Climatic Change and Water Supply: How Sensitive Is the Northeast? -- Bedford, Massachusetts, Case Study -- The Impact [of Global Warming] on Water Supplies -- Chapter 9: The university and overseas -- Introduction -- Environmental Affairs Program Clark University -- Interview with Professor Emeritus Harry E. Schwarz -- African River Basin Planning -- If I Had Had a GIS -- Chapter 10: Overview and perspectives: Harry E. Schwarz and the development of water resources and environmental planning -- Appendix 1: Personal Chronology -- Appendix 2: Bibliography -- Appendix 3: List of Personal Memoirs and Reminiscences -- Appendix 4: Engineer Profile: Interview with Harry E. Schwarz -- Appendix 5: Biographical Sketches: Arthur Maass and Gilbert F. White -- Index -- Back Cover.

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