Engineering, Ethics, and the Environment

Vesilind, P. Aarne, Gunn, Alastair S.

ISBN 10: 0521589185 / ISBN 13: 9780521589185

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engineering, Ethics, and the Environment
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521589185
• ISBN 13: 9780521589185
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Engineering is 'the people-serving profession'. The work of engineers involves interaction with clients, other engineers, and the public at large. More than any other profession, their work also directly involves and affects the environment. This book, first published in 1998, makes the case that engineers have special professional obligations to protect and enhance the environment, and the authors - one, an engineer and the other, a philosopher - seek to provide an ethical basis for these obligations. In exploring these ethical issues, the authors aim to show that engineers make a difference. The text opens with a series of case studies in which engineers face complex and challenging decisions about the environment. Succeeding chapters examine different ideas about environmental ethics for engineers, including professional codes and both modern and historical discussions of environmental responsibility. The book concludes with a collection of readings that complement the text. Students, as well as practising engineers, will find much of interest in this well-argued and thought-provoking book.

Review

'... this timely book will indeed provide a wealth of source material with which engineers and engineering students may wrestle to good effect.' Raymond Spier, Science and Engineering Ethics

'... this is a well written, enjoyable and thought-provoking book which should be very valuable to engineers'. Paul Grad