Engineering Earth

The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects

Buch | Softcover

2266 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2011
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-024-0475-3 (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.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	LXXI, 2266 p. In 3 volumes, not available separately.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik
	Wirtschaft
Schlagworte	2009 Afghan election • Agriculture • Alcan highway • Amenity Landscapes • Apartheids structure • Architecture • Asylum sites • Border policy • Capital cities • Casinos • cattle movement • Coastal engineering • Coastal reclamation • Contruction companies • Corporation strategies • Crop biotechnology • Cyberspace • Dairy development • Dams • Deep-drilling • Deep-Sea mining • Detentional landscapes • Diamond mining • Earth moving • Earth restoration project • Ecological Apocalypse • Edge cities • Energy megaprojects • Facebook • Fishing • Floating bags • floating cities • Geo-engineering • Geography • GIS • global warming • Google • GPS collars • Green belts • Hydroelectricity • ICT • Intermodal terminals • Internet • Interstate highway system • Irrigation • K-economies • Kursk magnetic anomaly • Large engineering projects • Life necessities trade • Liquid urbanity • Mega-airports • Megabridges • megachurches • Megadams • Megaengineering • Megafacilities • Megahydraulic engineering • Mega logistics • Megaports • Mining projects • Nonferrous metals mining • Nuclear complex • Nuclear testing • Oil • Olympics • permafrost • Planned retirement communities • Public transportation • Reconstructing nature • Recreation • River diversion • Rolling freshwater tires • Schengen regime • Sea art • Socially engineered landscapes • Soil erosion • Soil Mechanics • Tourism • Transamazon highway • Transfrontier parks • Transportation • Trans-Saharan railway • urban environment • Val d Europe • Virtual gaming worlds • Water transfer project • Weather modification • Worlds Fairs
ISBN-10	94-024-0475-9 / 9402404759
ISBN-13	978-94-024-0475-3 / 9789402404753
Zustand	Neuware