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Engineers, Society, and Sustainability

Part of the Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-02110-7

ISBN: 978-3-031-00982-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2011

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 1 –5

[In the original charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1828, Robert Tredgold defined engineering as the ‘art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.’ Industrialisation and modernisation, based on the dominance of humans over nature, has...
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Chapter 2The Origins of Sustainability

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 7 –23

[Sustainable development aims to halt and reverse the degradation of global ecosystems whilst maintaining human development. Given that human development has conventionally been based on industrialisation and modernisation, which in turn have required the exploitation of natural resources and the...
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Chapter 3Ecological Modernisation

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 25 –33

[Sustainable development requires consideration of social, ecological and economic factors in decision-making, design and management of development. Whilst this is widely recognised and agreed in principle, it has proved difficult to achieve in policy and practice. A more common response to the...
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Chapter 4Environmental Ethics

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 35 –44

[From the earliest years of the environmental movement, scholars and activists have tried to understand why and how humanity is capable of ecological destruction on such a vast scale. Radical ecologists have not been satisfied with the ecological modernists’ pragmatic account and have looked for...
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Chapter 5Society and Technology

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 45 –51

[Technology, new and old, is of central importance to sustainable development. Existing technologies have facilitated the consumption of resources, destruction of ecosystems and pollution of the environment. New technologies hold the promise of more radical resources efficiency and ecosystem...
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Chapter 6Engineering Consumption

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 53 –60

[The ecological crisis is driven by unceasing growth in consumption of resources, due to increasing population and per capita consumption. Sustainable development will require reduction in per capita consumption of resources by the wealthiest people in order to accommodate a projected global...
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Chapter 7Sustainable Urban Water Systems

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 61 –74

[The provision of clean water and sewerage services to modern cities is one of the greatest achievements of the engineering profession. Adapting those systems to the challenges of climate change and growing populations, and providing water and sewerage systems to the millions of people currently...
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Chapter 8Engineering, Technology and Ethics

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 75 –82

[Sustainability presents a particular challenge to the engineering profession. Moving beyond ecological modernism and efficiency, to more fundamental changes in the relationships between humans, technology and nature requires a new understanding of engineering and the impacts of technology....
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Chapter 9Conclusion

Bell, Sarah

Pages: 83 –86

[Humans are now changing the environment on Earth at an unprecedented rate. Carbon emissions are increasing global temperatures and changing the climate. More than half the world’s original forest cover has been lost or modified. One third of the world’s species are vulnerable or threatened with...

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