Engineering earth : the impacts of megaengineering projects
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
1 online resource (lxxi, 2266 pages) : illustrations
9789048199204, 9789048199198, 9048199204, 9048199190
719362728
Printed edition:
pt. 1. Introduction
pt. 2. GIS, ICTs and K-economics
pt. 3. Agriculture, fishing and mining projects
pt. 4. Energy and industrial projects
pt. 5. Transportation projects
pt. 6. Construction companies and corporation strategies
pt. 7. Megafacilities, designs and architecture
pt. 8. Tourism, recreation and amenity landscapes
pt. 9. Reconstructing and restoring nature
pt. 10. River diversion and coastal reclamation projects
pt. 11. Dams
pt. 12. Military, security, and risk landscapes
pt. 13. Socially engineered landscapes
pt. 14. Political organization and space
pt. 15. Earth and planetary engineering