Titlebook: Engineers, Society, and Sustainability; Sarah Bell Book 2011 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2011

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Introduction,of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.’ Industrialisation and modernisation, based on the dominance of humans over nature, has improved the lives of millions of people, but at the expense of environmental degradation and with uneven distribution of social costs and benefits. Engineer

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Environmental Ethics,estruction on such a vast scale. Radical ecologists have not been satisfied with the ecological modernists’ pragmatic account and have looked for deeper cultural origins for the ecological crisis. Several distinct movements have developed within environmental philosophy and activism, each with a par

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Society and Technology,truction of ecosystems and pollution of the environment. New technologies hold the promise of more radical resources efficiency and ecosystem recovery. However, technology alone neither restores nor destroys ecosystems. Technologies are used by people, for good and bad purposes. The relationships be

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Sustainable Urban Water Systems,systems to the challenges of climate change and growing populations, and providing water and sewerage systems to the millions of people currently living without adequate access, are two of the greatest challenges facing the profession in the twenty-first century. Water is one of the most essential a

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Conclusion,e. 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 extinction. A quarter of the world’s arable land is severely degraded. Conventional oil production has peaked in many regions and is likely to peak global

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04241-1powers of humanity for the benefit of nature, the flipside of Tredgold’s definition. The contradictory depictions of engineers controlling and destroying nature and communities, or protecting and restoring nature and achieving sustainability are not easily reconciled.