Engineering, poverty, and the earth

• Main Author: Catalano, George D.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2007.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on engineering, technology, and society ; #4.
• Subjects: Engineering ethics.; Engineering > Social aspects.; Environmental degradation.; Environmental engineering.; Poverty > United States.; Poverty.
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In the present work, the growing awareness in engineering of the profession's responsibility towards the environment and the poor is considered. The following approach is taken: a brief overview of the issues of poverty particularly in the U.S. and the deterioration of the natural world with a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Planet earth
• Poverty
• Emerging ideas in engineering
• A new paradigm for engineering
• Final thoughts
• References
• Authorbiography.