Water Resources People and Issues
Interviewer
Martin Reuss is a senior historian in the Office of History, Headquarters, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers. He specializes in the history of flood control,
navigation, and civil engineering. Among his monographs are
Environmental Awareness:
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Environmental Advisory Board, 19704980, Reshaping National Water Politics:
Emergence of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, and Designing
the Bayous:
Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995.
He also introduced and edited Water Resources Administration in the United States:
Policy, Practice, and Emerging Issues and
Flood Control Challenge:
Past, Present, and Future.
Numerous professional journals, including The Public Historian, Technology and
Culture,
Journal of Policy History, Central European History,
Louisiana History, and South Atlantic Quarterly have published articles by Dr.
Reuss.
He received his Ph.D. from Duke University and taught at Georgia Southern
College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Acknowledgments
Marilyn Hunter, Office of History, and Arlene Nurthen, Institute for Water
Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, provided editorial and technical
support. Barbara Barnes prepared the index.
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