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

Amadei, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0784413533 / ISBN 13: 9780784413531

Published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engineering for Sustainable Human Development : A Guide to Successful Small-Scale Community Projects
• Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0784413533
• ISBN 13: 9780784413531
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.587 pounds

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Bernard Amadei, Ph.D., NAE, is professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering. He is also the founding president of Engineers Without Borders USA and the cofounder of the Engineers Without Borders International network.