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PUBLICATIONS “Shortage of Public Water Supplies in the United States During 1934,” Journal of the American

Water Works Association, 27(7), July 1935, 841-854. “The Limit of Economic Justification for Flood Protection,” The Journal of Land and Public

Utility Economics, 12, May 1936, 133-148. “Notes on Flood Protection and Land-use Planning,” Planners Journal, 3(3), May-June 1936,

57-61. With the Committee, “The Broadening Scope of Planning,” Proceedings of the National Zoning

Conference, prepared by the National Resources Committee, Chicago, Illinois, December 12-13, 1937, 25-28.

“Economic Justification for Flood Protection,” Civil Engineering, 7(5), May 1937, 345-348. “Economic Aspects of Flood-forecasting,” Transactions of 1939 of the American Geophysical

Union, 218-233. “State Regulation of Floodplain Use,” Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, 16(3),

August 1940, 352-357. “Land Planning,” Planning for America, (Edited by G.B. Galloway). New York, NY: Henry

Holt, 1941, 89-108. Human Adjustment to Floods, Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography

Research Papers, No. 29, 1945, published in limited edition in 1942, 225 pp. “Geographic Problems in Natural Resources Administration,” unpublished paper, presented at

the Association of American Geographers, 1948. “Water Limits to Human Activity in the United States,” Proceedings of the InterAmerican

Conference on Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources, Section III, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, 1948, 317-321.

The United States and the Soviet Union, written by AFSC working committee, (GFW chair),

Yale University Press, 1949. “National Resources: Progress and Poverty,” University of Chicago Round Table, NBC radio

discussion with Edward Ackerman and William Vogt, No. 569, February 13, 1949. With the Committee, Task Force Report on Organization and Policy in the Field of Natural

Resources, Appendix L, 255 pp., prepared for the Commission on Organization of the


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Executive Branch of the Government, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 1949.

With others, New Evidence of the Militarization of America, Washington: National Council

Against Conscription, 1949, 54 pp. Letter p. 336 Hearing before a subcommittee of the committee on interstate and foreign

commerce, US Senate, September 27, 28, 29 and October 3, 1949. “Toward an Appraisal of World Resources,” Geographical Review, 39(4), 1949, 625-639. “Peace with Russia, Realism or Unrealism?” University of Chicago Round Table, NBC radio

discussion with Harrison Brown, William Henry Chamberlin, Malcolm Sharp and GFW, January 29, 1950.

With the Commission, A Water Policy for the American People, Report of the President's Water

Policy Commission, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950, 3 volumes.

“National Executive Organization for Water Resources,” American Political Science Review,

44(3), September 1950, 593-610. “Reorganization of Federal Agencies for Natural Resources Development,” Journal of the

American Water Works Association, 42, 1950, 611-614. “The United States and the Soviet Union,” A report prepared with AFSC. Reprinted from Yale

University Press. Industrial and Social Order Council of the Society of Friends. London, 1950.

“The United States and the Soviet Union: The Quaker Report after Six Months. Preface, The

Friend, Sixth Month 15, 1950, 23 pp. Written by committee. Steps to Peace: A Quaker View of U.S. Foreign Policy, A Report

prepared for the American Friends Service Committee. 1951. “Friends’ Responsibility for Service.” Friends Face their Fourth Century, The Third World

Conference of Friends. Oxford England, July 28-August 6, 1952, 78-90. “America’s Dual Responsibility,” Building Leadership for Peace, Report of the 21st Annual

Forum, 1952, New York: New York Herald Tribune, 22-24. “Some New Queries for Friends’ School,” The Courier. Friends Council on Education, 1953. “The Liberal Arts College,” p. 369, keynote address Second Buck Hill Falls Conference,

Preparation for Medical Education in the Liberal Arts College, The Report of the


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Subcommittee on Pre-professional Education of the Survey of Medical Education. McGraw Hill, 1953.

“A New Stage in Resource History,” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 8(5), September

1953, 228-232, 248. “Alumni Day Address,” The Westonian, Westown School, 1954. “Chairman’s Summary: Water Resources Problems,” The Nation Looks at its Resources,

Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1954, 173-175. “Work of the UNESCO Advisory Committee on Arid Zone Research,” Science, 120(3105), July

2, 1954, 15. “Haverford College,” p 89-96. Faculty Rights and Obligations in Eight Liberal Arts Colleges,

Charles Dennison, TC Studies Education, Colombia, 1955. With the Commission, “Draft bill entitled ‘Water Resources Act of 1951’,” based on President's

Water Resources Policy Commission Report, May 1955. With the Committee, The Goals of Student Exchange, Committee on Educational Interchange

Policy, New York, January 1955. With the Committee, Geographic Distribution in Exchange Programs, Committee on

Educational Interchange Policy, New York, January 1955. With Peter C. Duisberg, “International Arid Lands Meetings in New Mexico,” Scientific

Monthly, 192, March 1955. “Symposium on the Future of the Arid Lands,” Geographical Review, 45(3), 1955, 434-435. “International Cooperation in Arid Zone Research,” Science, 123(3196), March 30, 1956, 537-

538. Editor, The Future of Arid Lands, Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement

of Science, 1956, 444 pp. (In English and Russian.) “Discussion,” Water for Industry, Jack B. Graham and Meredith F. Burrill, (eds.), Washington,

DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1956, 121-124. The High School in a New Era, Papers presented at the Conference on the American High

School at the University of Chicago October 28-30, 1957, p. 63-71, 1958, University of Chicago Press.

With the Committee, The Need for Basic Research with Respect to Renewable Natural

Resources, Special Committee on Renewable Natural Resources, Division of Biology and


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Agriculture, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 1957.

“A Perspective of River Basin Development,” Law and Contemporary Problems, 22(2), Spring

1957, 157-184. (In English and Japanese.) “The Citizen and the Water Problem,” transcription of address to the South Shore Branch,

League of Women Voters of Chicago, Chicago, March 27, 1957. “Introductory Graduate Work for Geographers,” The Professional Geographer, 10(2), March

1958, 6-8. With the Committee, Integrated River Basin Development, U.N. Department of Economic and

Social Affairs, New York, 1958. (In English, French and Spanish.) With Wesley C. Calef, James W. Hudson, Harold M. Mayer, John R. Shaeffer, and Donald J.

Volk, Changes in Urban Occupance of Flood Plains in the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography Research Papers, No. 57, 1958, 235 pp.

“Broader Bases for Choice: The Next Key Move,” Perspective on Conservation, Henry Jarrett,

Editor, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1958, 205-226. “The Facts About Our Water Supply,” Harvard Business Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, March-April

1958, 87-94. “River Basin Development,” News of the U.N., Friends General Conference, 2(2), May 1958, 1,

4. “Emerging Needs in Development of the World's Rivers,” WMO Bulletin, July 1958, 108-111. “The Changing Dimensions of the World Community,” The High School in a New Era, Francis

S. Chase and Harold A. Anderson, (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. Also in Journal of Geography, 59(4), April 1960, 165-170.

“Friends Education,” p. 87-98. In Horace Mather Lippinott, (Ed.) Through a Quaker Archway.

Sagamore Press. 1959. “A New Attack on Flood Losses,” State Government, 32(2), Spring 1959, 121-126. “Strategic Aspects of Urban Flood Plain Occupance,” Journal of the Hydraulics Division,

Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 86(HY2), February 1960, 89-102.

“A Geographer's View of the Problems of the South Platte,” Resource Development: Frontiers

for Research, Papers of the Western Resources Conference, 1959, Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1960, 75-83.


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“Industrial Water Use: A Review,” The Geographical Review, 50(3), 1960, 412-430. “Alternative Uses of Limited Water Supplies,” Impact, 10(4), 1960, 243-263. Science and the Future of Arid Lands, Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization, 1960. (In English, French and Spanish.) “The Changing Role of Water in Arid Lands,” University of Arizona Bulletin Series, 32(2),

November 1960. Also in Arizona Review, 16(3), March 1967, 1-8. “The Control and Development of Flood Plain Areas,” Proceedings of the 1960 Institute on

Planning and Zoning, Dallas: Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1961, 93-107. Consultant, “Report of the Select Committee on National Water Resources,” Senate Report No.

29, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, 1961. “Introduction: The Strategy of Using Flood Plains,” Papers on Flood Problems, Gilbert F.

White, Editor, Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography Research Papers, No. 70, 1961, 1-4.

With Robert W. Kates, “Flood Hazard Evaluation,” Papers on Flood Problems, Gilbert F.

White, Editor, Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography Research Papers, No. 70, 1961, 135-147.

Editor, Papers on Flood Problems, Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography

Research Papers, No. 70, 1961. “Water: A Growing Crisis on the Flood Front,” Planning, Chicago: American Society of

Planning Officials, 1961, 132-136. “The Choice of Use in Resources Management,” Natural Resources Journal, 1, March 1961, 23-

40. “A Joint Effort to Improve High School Geography,” Journal of Geography, 60(8), November

1961, 357‑360. “Water Pollution Control and Its Challenge to Political Economic Research: Discussion,”

Proceedings of the National Conference on Water Pollution, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961, 485-497.

With Charles C. Colby, “Harlan H. Barrows, 1877-1960,” Annals, Association of American

Geographers, 51(4), December 1961, 395-400.


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Advisory committee, The Peace Corps, A Study by the Colorado State University Research Foundation, Ft. Collins, Colorado. Prepared for the International Cooperation Administration, 1961.

“Report of the Past President,” Professional Geographer, 14(4), July 1962, 13-14. “The Lower Mekong Development: Its Meaning and Extent,” Resources, No. 112, May 1962,

19-26. (In English and Japanese.) With Egbert de Vries, Harold B. Dunkerley, and John V. Krutilla, “Economic and Social Aspects

of Lower Mekong Development,” A Report to the Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong Basin, January 1962. (In English and French.)

“Critical Issues Concerning Geography in the Public ServiceCIntroduction,” Annals, Association

of American Geographers, 52(3), September 1962, 279-280. With the Committee, Natural Resources: A Summary Report to the President of the United

States, National Research Council Committee on Natural Resources, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Publication 1000, 1962, 62 pp.

“The Changing Role of Water in Arid Lands,” The Annie W. Riecker Memorial Lecture Series,

University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 1962. “Social and Economic Aspects of Natural Resources,” A Report to the Committee on Natural

Resources, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Publication 1000-G, 1962. “Thirsty Lands—Past and Future,” UNESCO Courier, May 1962, 4-17. “Uncharted Intellect: Our Unworldly Ignorance,” Chicago Sunday Sun-Times, June 10, 1962,

Section 2, 1-2. As told to Jack Star, “We’re Talking Ourselves into a Water Crisis,” Look, September 11, 1962,

61-64. Review of Man, Mind and Land: A Theory of Resource Use, Walter Firey, Economic Geography,

39(4), 1962, 373-374. Opening Statement, White House Conference on Conservation, Official Proceedings, May 24-

25, 1962, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1962, 43-45. “Contributions of Geographical Analysis to River Basin Development,” Geographical Journal,

129, Pt. 4, December 1963, 412-436. “The Mekong River Plan,” Scientific American, 208(4), April 1963, 49-59, also in Arms Control,

Herbert F. York, Editor, San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1973, 318-329.


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With Howard Cook, “Making Wise Use of Flood Plains,” Science, Technology and Development, Vol. 1, U.S. papers prepared for U.N. conference, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963, 343‑359.

Review of Gewässer and Wasserhaushalt des Festlands, Reiner Keller, Geographical Review,

53(4), 1963, 628-629. With the Committee, “An Outline of International Programs in the Atmospheric Sciences,”

National Research Council, Ad Hoc Committee on International Programs in Atmospheric Sciences and Hydrology, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Publication 1085, 1963.

“United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the

Less Developed Areas,” Geographical Review, 53, October 1963, 608-609. “New Emphasis in Planning Our Physical Resources,” Proceedings of the Sixth Annual

Metropolitan Area Planning Conference, September 25, 1963. “Maps in Our Changing World,” Current Events, 63(21), 1964, 163-166. “Floodplain Adjustment and Regulations,” Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Section 25-V, Ven

Ta Chow, Editor, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. Choice of Adjustment to Floods, Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography

Research Papers, No. 93, 1964, 150 pp. “Rivers of International Concord,” UNESCO Courier, No. 32, July-August 1964, 36-37. “Vietnam: The Fourth Course,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 20, No. 10, December

1964, 6-10. Also in Marcus Raskin and Bernard Fall (eds.), The Viet Nam Reader, New York: Random House, 1965, 351-357.

“Neglected Alternatives to Flood Protection,” 1964 Annual Report, Washington, DC: Resources

for the Future, 15-24. “Rediscovering the Earth,” American Education, 1(2), February 1965, 8-11. Also in Bulletin of

the National Association of Secondary School Principals, 51(316), February 1967, 1-9. “Geography in Liberal Education,” Geography in Undergraduate Education, A Report of the

Geography in Liberal Education Project, Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1965, 13-24.

“Water Development as Part of a Development Aid Policy,” Proceedings of the International

Conference on Water Development in Less Developed Areas, Berlin, 1963, Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1965, 44-56.


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With W. R. D. Sewell, “The Lower Mekong,” International Conciliation, No. 558, May, 1966, 1-63.

With the Committee, Alternatives in Water Management: Report of the Committee on Water,

Division of Earth Sciences, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1966. With the Commission. Weather and Climate Modification: Report of the Special Commission on

Weather Modification, Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 1966. With the Task Force. A Unified National Program for Managing Flood Losses: Report by the

Task Force on Federal Flood Control Policy, Washington, DC: Bureau of the Budget, 1966. Also, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, House Document No. 465, 47 pp.

“Approaches to Weather Modification,” Human Dimensions of Weather Modification, Chicago:

University of Chicago Department of Geography Research Papers, No. 105, 1966, 19-23. “Optimal Flood Damage Management: Retrospect and Prospect,” Water Research, Allen V.

Kneese and Stephen C. Smith, (eds.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966, 251-269. Also in Selected Works in Water Resources, Asit Biswas, Editor, Champaign, IL: International Water Resources Association, 1975, 201-219.

“Formation and Role of Public Attitudes,” Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy:

Essays from the Sixth RfF Forum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966, 105-127.

“The World's Arid Areas,” Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal, E. S. Hills, Editor, London:

Methuen, 15-30; Paris: UNESCO, 1966. “Deserts as Producing Regions Today,” Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal, E. S. Hills,

Editor, London: Methuen, 421-437; Paris: UNESCO, 1966. “Arid Lands,” Future Environments of North America, F. Fraser Darling and John P. Milton,

(eds.), Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press, 1966, 172-184. “Rediscovering the Earth,” Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals,

51(316), February 1967, 1-9. With the Committee, African and American Universities Program, 1958-1966: A Summary,

University of Chicago, 1967. “Flood Plain Safeguards: A Community Concern,” Outdoors U.S.A.: The Yearbook of

Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967, 133-136.

“River Basin Planning and Peace: The Lower Mekong,” Problems and Trends in American

Geography, Saul B. Cohen, Editor, New York: Basic Books, 1967, 187-199.


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“Task Force Report on Federal Flood Control Policy,” Conference Preprint 550, American

Society of Civil Engineers, National Meeting on Water Resource Engineering, New York, October 16-20, 1967.

“Chronic Dilemma,” Friend’s Journal, April 15, 1967, 215-216. “Background for Better Teaching: The Uses of New Geography,” Professional Growth for

Teachers, Social Studies, Second Quarter Issue, 1967-1968, 2-3. With James A. Harder, “The Mekong River Project,” The 1968 World Book Yearbook: The

Annual Supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1968, 79-95.

“Federal Flood Control Policy,” Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 38(8),

1968, 60‑62. With the Committee, Water and Choice in the Colorado Basin: An Example of Alternatives in

Water Management, National Research Council Committee on Water, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Publication 1689, 1968.

Strategies of American Water Management, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press,

1969. (In English and Russian.) “As the Rich Grow Richer,” unpublished paper, Commencement Address, Earlham College,

Richmond, Indiana, January 20, 1969. Editor, Water, Health and Society, Selected Papers by Abel Wolman, Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 1969. “Flood Damage Prevention Policies,” United Nations Interregional Seminar on Flood Damage

Prevention: Measures and Management, Tbilisi, USSR, September 25-October 15, 1969, 18-37. New York: United Nations.

“Scientific Dimensions of Water Planning,” Earth Sciences Newsletter, No. 5, December 1969. “World Population, A challenge to the United Nations and its system of agencies.” A report of

the National Policy Panel established by the United Nations Association of the USA. With Bornson P. Clark, Vietnam 1969, an AFSC White Paper, 1969, 14 pp.

With the Commission, “The University's Response to the Environmental Crisis,” Commission on

Environmental Studies, Boulder: University of Colorado, 1970. “Preface,” reprinting of Integrated River Basin Development, New York: United Nations,

Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1970, ix-xiii. (Original edition, 1958.)


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“Flood Losses: A Global Perspective,” Water Spectrum, 2(1), Spring, 1970, 20-23. “The University and National Water Policy,” The University's Role in National Water Policy, J.

Ernest Flack, Editor, proceedings of a conference held July 27-28, 1970, Blacksburg, Virginia: Universities Council on Water Resources, 1-9.

“Recent Developments in Flood Plain Research,” Geographical Review, 60(3), July 1970, 440-

443. “Unresolved Issues,” Arid Lands in Transition, Harold E. Dregne, Editor, Washington, DC:

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1970, 481-491. “Flood-loss Reduction: The Integrated Approach,” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol.

25, No. 5, September-October 1970, 172-176. With the Committee, From Geographic Discipline to Inquiring Student: Final Report on the

High School Geography Project, Donald J. Patton, Editor, Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1970, 70-72.

“The Meaning of the Environmental Crisis,” presented at University of California, Los Angeles,

December 7, 1970, in Burton and Kates, Vol. I, 278-290. “Suggestions for the Proposed Publication on Planning of Water Resources Development in

Africa,” Water Resources Development and Social Welfare, Economic Commission for Africa, Working Group on Water Resources Planning, June 15-25, 1970.

With the Committee, Evaluation Processes in Water Resources Management and Development,

Report of the Task Force on Water Resources Evaluation of the Universities Council on Water Resources, 1971.

“Environmental Protection and Water Development,” unpublished paper, International

Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Man and Environment, May 1971. “Evaluating the Consequences of Water Management Projects,” unpublished paper, presented at

Columbia University, March 21, 1971. “Two New Issues in Water Planning,” unpublished paper, presented at Oregon State University,

Corvallis, January 25, 1971. “International Response to Environmental Hazards,” unpublished paper, IGU Commission on

Man and Environment, May 1971. “Collaboration in Natural Hazards Research,” Geographical Review, 62(2), 1972, 280-281. With David J. Bradley and Anne U. White, Drawers of Water: Domestic Water Use in East

Africa, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.


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“International Cooperation Among Geographers: The IGU Commission on Man and

Environment,” Geoforum: Journal of Physical, Human and Regional Geosciences, 3(10), 1972, 98-99.

“International Dimensions,” High School Geography Project: Legacy for the Seventies, Angus

M. Gunn, Editor, prepared for the International Geographical Union Commission on the Teaching of Geography, Montreal: Educatif et Culturel, 1972, 37-41.

“Organizing Scientific Investigations to Deal with Environmental Impacts,” The Careless

Technology, M. Taghi Farvar and John P. Milton, (eds.), Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1972, 914-926.

With the Committee, Man-made Lakes as Modified Ecosystems, Report of the SCOPE Working

Group on Man-made Lakes, Paris: International Council of Scientific Unions, SCOPE Report No. 2, 1972.

“Geography and Public Policy,” Professional Geographer, 24(2), 1972, 101-104. “Environmental Impact Statements,” Professional Geographer, 24(3), 1972, 302-309. “Human Response to Natural Hazard,” Perspectives on Benefit-risk Decision Making, report of

colloquium conducted by the Committee on Public Engineering Policy, Washington, DC: National Academy of Engineering, April 1972, 43-49.

“History of Fire in North America,” Fire in the Environment: Symposium Proceedings,

published in cooperation with the fire services of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.Cmembers of the Fire Management Study Group, North American Forestry Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization, Washington, DC: Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, December 1972, 3-11.

“Regional Alternatives,” The High Plains: Problems of Semiarid Environments, Donald D.

MacPhail, Editor, (48th annual meeting of Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, April 26-29, 1972). Fort Collins: Colorado State University, 97-100.

With the Committee, The Agnes Floods, Report for the Administrator of the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration by the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 22, 1972.

“Response to the Presentation of the Iben Award,” Water Resources Bulletin, 8(6), December

1972, 1287‑1289. “Moral Issues Concerning the Global Environment,” unpublished paper, March 29, 1972.


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With the Committee, Experiment Without Precedent, Report of an American Friends Service Committee Delegation's Visit to China, May 1972.

With William C. Ackermann and E. B. Worthington, (eds.), Man-made Lakes: Their Problems

and Environmental Effects, Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 17, 1973.

“Public Opinion in Planning Water Development,” Environmental Quality and Water

Development, Charles R. Goldman, James McEvoy, II, and Peter J. Richerson, (eds.), San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1973.

“Prospering with Uncertainty,” Transfer of Water Resources Knowledge, Evan Vlachos, Editor,

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Transfer of Water Resources Knowledge, Fort Collins: Water Resources Publications, 1973, 22-28. Also in Floods and Droughts, E. F. Schulz, V. A. Koelzer, and Khalid Mahmood, (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Symposium in Hydrology, Fort Collins, CO: Water Resources Publications, 1973, 9-15.

With Daya U. Hewapathirane, “Obstacles to Consideration of Resources Management

Alternatives: South Asian Experience,” Transfer of Water Resources Knowledge, Evan Vlachos, Editor, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Transfer of Water Resources Knowledge, Fort Collins, CO: Water Resources Publications, 1973, 252-261.

“Preface,” Man, Materials, and Environment, Report for the National Commission on Materials

Policy by the Study Committee on Environmental Aspects of a National Materials Policy, Committee for International Environmental Programs, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering, 1973, 7-10.

“Natural Hazards Research,” Directions in Geography, Richard J. Chorley, Editor, London:

Methuen, 1973, 193‑216. “The Changing Role of Water in Arid Lands,” Coastal Deserts: Their Natural and Human

Environments, David H. K. Amiran and Andrew W. Wilson, (eds.), Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973, 37-43, adapted from the Riecker Lecture. Also in Arizona Review, 16(3), March 1967, 1-8.

“The Last Settler's Syndrome,” Exploring Options for the Future: A Study of Growth in Boulder

County. Vol. 8: Social and Humanistic Aspects, Boulder: Boulder Area Growth Study Commission, November 1973, 80-85.

Chairman of Advisory Board, Exploring Energy Choices: A Preliminary Report, Washington,

DC: Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project, 1974. “Domestic Water Supply: Right or Good?” Proceedings of Ciba Foundation Symposium on

Human Rights in Health, July 4-6, 1973, London, Amsterdam: Associated Scientific Publishers, 1974, 35-59.


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“Comparative Field Observations on Natural Hazards,” Man and Environment, Marton Pecsi and

Ferenc Probald, (eds.), Budapest: Research Institute of Geography, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1974, 73-79.

“Role of Geography in Water Resources Management,” Man and Water, L. Douglas James,

(ed.), Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1974, 102-121. “The Role of Scientific Information in Anticipation and Prevention of Environmental Disputes,”

unpublished paper, presented at Bellagio, Italy, July 19-23, 1974. “Environmental Threats to Man,” Energy, Environment, Productivity, Proceedings of the First

Symposium on RANN: Research Applied to National Needs, November 18-20, 1973, Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, May, 1974, 86-93.

“Edward A. Ackerman, 1911-1973,” Annals, Association of American Geographers, 64(2), June

1974, 297‑309. “Natural Hazards Research: Concepts, Methods, and Policy Implications,” Natural Hazards:

Local, National, Global, Gilbert F. White, (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, 3-16.

With Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther, “Decision Processes, Rationality, and Adjustment to

Natural Hazards,” Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global, Gilbert F. White, (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, 187-205.

(ed.), Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global, New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, 288

pp. (In English and Russian, Progress, 1978, edited by Golobev, Lavrov, Nikiforova, and Lavrobv).

“Mekong River,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th Edition, 1974, 860-863. “Exploring Energy Choices.” A preliminary report. Energy Policy Project of the Ford

Foundation, 174. “Comments,” A Time to Choose: America's Energy Future, Final Report by the Energy Policy

Project of the Ford Foundation, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1974, 410-411.

With Miriam Orleans, Carbon Monoxide and the People of Denver, University of Colorado

Environmental Council, Boulder: University of Colorado, Institute of Behavioral Science, 1974.

With J. Eugene Haas, “The Next Time,” Landscape Architecture, 66, April 1975, 169.


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“National Perspective,” The Water's Edge, The National Forum on the Future of the Flood Plain, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 17-19, 1975.

With J. Eugene Haas, Assessment of Research on Natural Hazards, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,

1975, 485 pp. “Interdisciplinary Studies of Large Reservoirs in Africa,” and “Discussion,” Proceedings of the

Conference on Interdisciplinary Analysis of Water Resource Systems, J. Ernest Flack, (ed.), University of Colorado, Boulder, June 19-22, 1973, New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1975, 63-85, 102-104.

With G. O. Lang, “Community Mobilization for Adaptation to Change in Rapid Growth Areas,”

Energy Development in the Rocky Mountain Region: Goals and Concerns, Denver, CO: Federation of Rocky Mountain States.

With W. A. R. Brinkmann, Harold C. Cochrane, and Neil J. Ericksen, Flood Hazard in the

United States: A Research Assessment, Boulder: Univerisity of Colorado, Institute of Behavioral Science, 1975.

With the Committee, Natural Hazard Management in Coastal Areas, Washington, DC: U.S.

Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management, 1976.

Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology,

Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology, “Earthquake Hearings,” Washington, DC, June 24, 1976.

“The IGU Commission on Man and Environment,” Geoforum: Journal of Physical, Human, and

Regional Geosciences, 7(2), 1976, 143-147. “Scientific Capacity and Global Environmental Problems,” Science: A Resource for Humankind,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Bicentennial Symposium, October 10-14, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1976, 37-40.

With the Committee, Early Action on the Global Environmental Monitoring System, Report of

the International Environmental Programs Committee, Environmental Studies Board, Commission on Natural Resources, National Research Council, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1976.

With the Committee, Water for All, Statement of the International Institute for Environment and

Development, Earthscan, Symposium on Water, in preparation for the United Nations Water Conference, Mar Del Plata, Argentina, March 14-25, 1977, Washington, DC, December 9-11, 1976. (In English, Spanish, French and Arabic.)

Opening statement in Russian in Chilwich n Cpreda, Moscow, 1976, 4-5.


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With Lou A. McClelland and Stuart W. Cook, “Potential Contributions by the Social and Behavioral Sciences to Environmental Research,” Panel on Sources and Control Techniques of the Environmental Research Assessment Committee, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1977.

“How Critical Are the World Water Problems?” Centre for Economic and Social Information,

United Nations Water Conference, Encounter for Journalists, Mar Del Plata, Argentina, March, 1977.

With Anne U. White, “The World Domestic Water and Sanitation Situation: Fact and

Speculation,” paper for Symposium on Domestic Water Supply, organized by the Government of Argentina in connection with the United Nations Water Conference, Mar Del Plata, Argentina, March 14-26, 1977.

“Environmental Health in Developing Countries,” Geographia Polonica, 36, 1977, 226-237. “Water Supply Service for the Urban Poor: Issues,” Energy, Water and Telecommunications

Department Public Utilities Notes, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, PU Report No. PUN 31, August 1977. Also in Water Supply and Management, 2, 1978, 425-454.

“Comparative Analysis of Complex River Development,” Environmental Effects of Complex

River Development: International Experience, Gilbert F. White, (ed.), Boulder: Westview Press, 1977, 1-21.

(ed.), Environmental Effects of Complex River Development: International Experience, Boulder:

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With Anne U. White, “Behavioral Factors in Selection of Technologies,” Appropriate

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“Message from Gilbert F. White,” ISEM Journal, 1(1-2), 1979, 5. With Mostafa K. Tolba, Global Life Support Systems, Nairobi: United Nations Environment

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“Floods,” presented at MURS and NAS Seminar on Risk Assessment and Decision Process, December 17-19, 1980.

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prepared for the Board of Trustees of the New School for Social Research, May, 1980. “National Water Issues: Growing Opportunities,” Water Resources Specialty Group Newsletter,

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Chapter Coordinator and Joint Author, “Water Resources,” Outlook for Science and Technology:

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With Anne U. White, “Economic Growth, Health and Physical Well-Being 1970-1980,” Water and Sanitation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives, P. G. Bourne, (ed.), London: Academic Press, 1984, 243-264.

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With Stephen A. Thompson, “A National Floodplain Map,” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 40(5),1985, 417-419.

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“The Role of Scientific Information in Anticipation and Prevention of Environmental Disputes,”

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“Dimensions of Drought Management for Public Water Supplies,” Drought Management and its

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“The New Cities at Threat,” Environment, 28(9), 1986, 1. “Foreword,” Nature on the Rampage: Our Violent Earth, Washington, DC: National Geographic

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“Challenges for the Future,” Arid Lands: Today and Tomorrow—Proceedings of an International Research and Development Conference, E. N. Whitehead et al., (eds.), Boulder and London: Westview and Belhaven, 1988, 1423-1425.

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“A Global Perspective on Western Water,” Water and the American West: Essays in Honor of

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“The Landscape Connection,” Environment, 31(3), 1989, 1. “NEPA at Twenty and Beyond,” Environment, 31(10), 1989, 1. With nine others, Interim Statement of the Technical Review Committee on the Yucca Mountain

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“Foreword,” Woodfuel, Women and Woodlots, Vol. 1, Philip N. Bradley, London: Macmillan, 1991, xxxi.

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“A Season of Change?” Environment, 34(10), 1992, 1. Martin Reuss, Water Resources People and Issues: Interview with Gilbert F. White, Fort Belvoir,

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With Ian Burton and Robert W. Kates, The Environment as Hazard, Second Edition, New

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“Further Tribute to James E. Goddard,” NANIA—All Together”: Comprehensive Watershed Management. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, May 8-13, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Boulder: Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Special Publication #30, 1994, 410-412.

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With Y.A. Mageed. “Critical Analysis of Existing Institutional Arrangements.” International

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With the committee, Committee on Sustainable Water Supplies in the Middle East, Water for the Future: The West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel and Jordan, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999, 200.

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Academy of Sciences, No. 5, 2001, 11-16 (in Russian). “Autobiographical Essay,” in Gould, P. and Pitts, F. (eds.), Geographical Voices, Syracuse, NY:

Syracuse University Press, 2002, 341-64. References Drawers of Water: Assessing domestic water use in Africa, p. 61, Bulletin of the

World Health Organization, 2002, 80(1). National Forum on Nonpoint Source Pollution (34 Forum) convened by National Geographic

Society and The Conservation Fund, Water: Taking a New Look on Nonpoint Water Pollution, 66 pp. undated.

With James L. Wescoat. Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 342 pp. “New Developments in the Study of Floodplains and Domestic Water Supply, Water Resources

Update, 120, 2003, 46-47. With Mary Fran Myers. “Social Choice in Dealing with Hurricanes.” In Hurricane!: Coping with

Disaster: Progress and Challenges since Galveston, 1990, Robert Simpson, Richard Anthes and Michael Garstan, Joanne Simpson (eds). Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union. 2003. Chapter 6.

“Foreword.” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Vol 10, No3, 2005, 333-

334. With Stephen P. Leatherman. “Living on the Edge: The Coastal Collision Course,” Natural

Hazards Observer, Vol. 30, No 2, 2005, pp. 5-6.

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