Engineering for Sustainable Human Development: A Guide to Successful Small-scale Community Projects: A Guide to Successful Small-Scale Community Development - Brossura

Amadei, Bernard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0784413533 ISBN 13: 9780784413531

Casa editrice: Amer Society of Civil Engineers, 2014

Riassunto

The challenge of improving the daily lives of people in developing communities calls for a new generation of global engineers who can operate in environments vastly different from those in the developed world. Engineers must become creative and innovative as they contend with uncertainty, complexity, and constraints in unfamiliar cultural settings. They must also deal with a multitude of technical and nontechnical issues beyond their accustomed practice.

In this book, Bernard Amadei addresses the role of engineering in poverty reduction and human development. He introduces a framework to help engineers conduct small-scale projects in communities vulnerable to the consequences of a wide range of adverse events. His framework combines concepts and tools traditionally used by development agencies with techniques from engineering project management and systems thinking. When blended, these tools and techniques from seemingly unrelated fields offer engineers better methods to manage the difficulties inherent in community development projects.

Engineering for Sustainable Human Development is about the delivery of projects that are done right from a performance (technical) point of view and are also the right projects from a social, environmental, and economic (context) point of view. This multidisciplinary approach to sustainable engineering will be valuable to practitioners and students, as well as people associated with development organizations and aid agencies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0784413533
• ISBN 13: 9780784413531
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 522
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile