Human Dimensions of Civil Engineering
eBook - ePub

Human Dimensions of Civil Engineering

Context and Decision-Making for a Sustainable Future

  1. 94 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Human Dimensions of Civil Engineering

Context and Decision-Making for a Sustainable Future

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Human Dimensions of Civil Engineering by Kathryn Terzano in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architecture & Civil Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032490700
eBook ISBN
9781000998849
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Civil Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. 1 Why Contextual Knowledge Matters
  7. 2 Local and Regional Politics: NIMBYism and beyond
  8. 3 National Politics: Who Cares about the Climate Crisis?
  9. 4 Sociological Changes: Demographic Trends in the Ways That People Live, Work, and Behave
  10. 5 Environmental Matters: Protectionism and Protests
  11. 6 Sustainable Economics: Is Net Zero Financially Viable?
  12. 7 History: Legacy and Long-Lasting Impacts
  13. 8 Public versus Private Space: Whose Bridge Is It?
  14. 9 The People: Working with and on Behalf of the Public
  15. 10 Other People: Working with Architects, Planners, Construction Professionals, and More
  16. 11 The Sustainable Future: Can We Still Make the Changes Today That We Should Have Made Yesterday?
  17. Index