Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering ProjectsStanley D. Brunn This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives. |
Contents
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Part III Agriculture Fishing and Mining Projects | 234 |
Part IV Energy and Industrial Projects | 427 |
Part V Transportation Projects | 551 |
Part VIII Tourism Recreation and Amenity Landscapes | 1107 |
Part IX Reconstructing and Restoring Nature | 1340 |
Part X River Diversion and Coastal Reclamation Projects | 1450 |
Part XI Dams | 1568 |
Part XII Military Security and Risk Landscapes | 1680 |
Part XIII Socially Engineered Landscapes | 1819 |
Part XIV Political Organization of Space | 2050 |
Part XV Earth and Planetary Engineering | 2172 |
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Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects Stanley D. Brunn No preview available - 2016 |
Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects Stanley D. Brunn No preview available - 2011 |
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