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The Oosterschelde Storm Surge Barrier: A Test Case for Dutch Water Technology, Management, and Politics

relationship is not as straightforward?humans dominating nature?as the phrase suggests. It is, for example, mediated in complex ways by science and technology. In this essay I will focus on one recent crisis in this relationship between the Dutch and the sea, the disastrous flood of 1953, and its resolu tion through the Delta Plan, and in particular the building of the storm surge barrier in the Oosterschelde.1

Wiebe E. Bijker

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