Engineering Earth
The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects
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Beschreibung
This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.
This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.
The first major work that addresses the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary nature of earth engineering with original chapters by leading scholars from the social, environmental and engineering sciences on megaengineering projects on regions, economies, cultures, and landscapes Detailed maps and photographs illustrate the megaprojects themselves and impacts on societies, regions, and economies A pioneering volume that documents and illustrates the scale and impacts of many megaprojects
Autor*in
Stanley D. Brunn
Themen in »Engineering Earth«
2009 Afghan election Agriculture Alcan highway Amenity Landscapes Apartheids structure Architecture Asylum sites Border policy Capital cities Casinos Coastal engineering Coastal reclamation Contruction companies Corporation strategies Crop biotechnology