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Engineering Earth

The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects

Stanley D. Brunn (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

2266 Seiten

2011
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-9919-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Professor Brunn has major interests in the human/environmental and environmental topics, emerging areas of cross-disciplinary and international research. He has published books on social, political, urban, information and communication geography as well as on the geopolitical implications of 11 September, technological hazards, and geography and technology. With Kluwer/Springer he published Geography and Technology (Kluwer, 2004), a 28 chapter book for the centennial of the Association of American Geographers.

I: Introduction.- II: GIS, ICT's and K-Economies.- III:Agriculture, Fishing and Mining Projects.- IV: Energy and Industrial Projects.- V: Transportation Projects.- VI: Construction Companies and Corporation Strategies.- VII: Megafacilities, Designs and Architecture.- VIII: Tourism, Recreation and Amenity Landscapes.- IX: Reconstructing and Restoring Nature.- X: River Diversion and Coastal Reclamation Projects.- XI: Dams.- XII: Military, Security, and Risk Landscapes.- XIII: Sociallly Engineered Landscapes.- XIV: Political Organization of Space.- XV: Earth and Planetary Engineering.

Zusatzinfo	LXXI, 2266 p. In 3 volumes, not available separately.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Cyberspace • Technik
ISBN-10	90-481-9919-0 / 9048199190
ISBN-13	978-90-481-9919-8 / 9789048199198
Zustand	Neuware