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Engineering and society working towards social justice. Part III, Engineering, windows on society /

Engineers work in an increasingly complex entanglement of ideas, people, cultures, technology, systems and environments. Today, decisions made by engineers often have serious implications for not only their clients but for society as a whole and the natural world. Such decisions may potentially infl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baillie, Caroline.
Other Authors: Catalano, George D.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
Series:Synthesis lectures on engineers, technology, & society (Online), # 10.
Subjects:
Engineering ethics.
Engineering ethics > Case studies.
Engineering > Social aspects.
Engineering > Case studies. > Social aspects
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Throwing away rubbish
  • The politics of garbage, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Finding ourselves
  • Kingston hot press
  • The press in the making
  • Wading into the waters
  • Inspiration
  • The workers' economy
  • The presence of absent ones
  • Lost places
  • Separation and solidarity
  • Who owns the waste
  • Variations
  • Bottles on cars
  • The plot thickens
  • Soft collaboration
  • No cost housing
  • Water turns to mud
  • Transferring ownership
  • Sorting out the difference
  • Reprocessing cooperatives
  • Pressing on
  • Urban recoverers
  • Bajo Flores
  • So many hot presses
  • Traveling knowledge
  • Cooperativa de trabajo "19 de Diciembre"
  • INTI
  • Synchronicity
  • Reciclando sueños
  • Painting a picture
  • Pressing ahead
  • The Phoenix of Lanzone
  • The mighty hotpress is finished (almost)
  • Sin patrón
  • Champagne!
  • Handing it over
  • Who's doing what?
  • Final thoughts
  • 3. Turning on the tap
  • Turning on the tap
  • Blue gold
  • The water wars
  • Water in Buenos Aires
  • Water in Africa
  • Privatisation
  • Why is privatization taking place?
  • Final thoughts
  • 4. Awakened by an alarm clock
  • Engineering and our concept of time are intricately related
  • The alarm clock
  • Modern society and welcome to the machine
  • The assembly line
  • Nature as machine
  • Economics and the machine
  • Looking forward in time: a new paradigm for science and technology
  • Self governing principles, economics and community
  • Time in a machine; time in a community
  • Conclusions.
  • 5. Driving the SUV
  • So what exactly is an SUV
  • The SUV and the environment
  • The threat from global warming
  • SUV's smog forming emissions
  • U.S. dependency on oil
  • What can be done?
  • Case study
  • 6. Travelling to Waikiki Beach
  • Introduction
  • History
  • Background
  • Case study
  • Bibliography.

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