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Human Dimensions of Civil Engineering: Context and Decision-Making for a Sustainable Future - Hardcover

Terzano, Kathryn

 
9781032490700: Human Dimensions of Civil Engineering: Context and Decision-Making for a Sustainable Future
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032490705 ISBN 13: 9781032490700
Publisher: CRC Press, 2023

Synopsis

Written to complement civil engineers’ technical knowledge, this book explains the sociocultural contextual knowledge that civil engineers need if they are to be effective in their professions. Civil engineers design and build the world in which we all live. The decisions that they make can guide us toward a more sustainable society since the infrastructure that they create has a direct impact on how sustainably we are able to live. Sustainability is value-laden, however, and embedded within larger contexts. Whilst engineers are well versed in technical matters and the evaluation of physical contexts, their education often leaves out essential knowledge about the larger social, cultural, economic, historical, and political contexts in which they operate.

This book helps readers to understand contextual knowledge and why context matters―which is useful to engineering students and professionals who have found this topic absent from their education, who would like to understand contextual issues, and who would like to know why they should care. The book lays out essential sociocultural contextual knowledge for today’s civil engineers, relevant across a wide variety of workplaces.

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About the Author

Kathryn Terzano is Lecturer in Sustainable Design at the University of Bristol, UK.

From the Back Cover

Civil engineers need to understand the larger social, cultural, economic, historical, and political environment context to be effective in their profession and to deliver sustainability. With case studies, takeaway messages, and questions for further thought, this outlines these factors, with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032490705
ISBN 13 
9781032490700
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
94