The Sustainable World
- ISBN-10
- 1845645049
- ISBN-13
- 9781845645045
- Category
- Environmental responsibility
- Pages
- 817
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- WIT Press
- Author
- C. A. Brebbia
Description
This book contains a collection of papers presented at a series of meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) dealing with sustainability, the environment and ecological issues. The complexity of the modern world presents new challenges to scientists and engineers that requires finding interdisciplinary solutions. Any problem solving carried out in the isolation of a particular field of expertise may give rise to a series of damaging effects which can create new and unintentional environmental and ecological problems. Specialisation, while required in our culture, needs to be kept under control by the understanding of the whole, which leads to the need of relying on interdisciplinary teams. Nowadays this can be easily achieved thanks to the massive advances in information technology which ensure continuous and immediate contact between all partners. This collaboration needs to be effective and to produce results that will lead to a better world. For this to happen, it is necessary that different groups of scientists and engineers acquire the necessary skills to be able to talk to each other. Furthermore, they need to understand the social and economic aspects of a given problem, in addition to the scientific and engineering issues involved. The Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) has a long and very successful record in organising interdisciplinary conferences. The papers in this book are a reflection of the proceedings of some of those meetings.
Get the book
Similar books
-
文明的代價: 追求繁榮,效率,正義,永續,沒有白吃午餐
By 廖月娟, Jeffrey Sachs, 薩克斯文明的代價: 追求繁榮,效率,正義,永續,沒有白吃午餐
-
Save the Earth Science Experiments: Science Fair Projects for Eco-kids
By Elizabeth Snoke HarrisMore than twenty "green" science fair projects.
-
Imagination in Mind: Educating for Ecological Literacy
By Gillian JudsonThe author argues that the educational value of imagination lies in the flexibility, energy and vividness of mind that enables us to transcend the actual, enter a world of possibilities, and understand the world more fully from different ...
-
Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature
By Mark EdwardsBob Dylan sings 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'. Edwards illustrates each line of the song in this book, he travels to over 150 countries to photograph our headlong collision with nature.
-
the Otesha Book: From Junk to Funk!
Meal. For three years in a row, Tom Birkender's grade eight students at Sum- merland High School in BC went on a very ... asking about the impacts of fast food, he issued the challenge of producing a garbageless lunch at the restaurant.
-
Green Guide: The Complete Reference for Consuming Wisely
By Author TBDSeveral states including California and North Dakota have attempted to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp ; so far ... it's made from post - consumer materials , primarily plastic soda bottles , instead of the usual petroleum .
-
Moving Mountains: Communities Confront Mining and Globalisation
By James Goodman, Geoffrey Russell Evans, Nina LansburyG. Crough , Aboriginal People in the Economy of Northern Australia , Northern Territory University Press , Darwin 1983 ... Trigger , Whitefella Comin ' : Aboriginal Responses to Colonialism in Northern Australia , Cambridge University ...
-
Healing: Crucible Birth
By Sherrie M. Steiner2002. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy : The Truth About Corporate Cons , Globalization , and High - Finance Fraudsters . Middlesex , England : Penguin Books ; William D. Hartung . 2003. How Much Are You Making on the War , Daddy ?
-
Simple Life "Friluftsliv": People Meet Nature
By Roger Isberg, Sarah IsbergSimple Life describes a rich outdoor life using simple means, a life experiment exploring values and relationships between people and nature, as well as among people.
-
Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: An Examination of the Antecedents of Behavior Among Air Force Members at Work
By Mark S. LaudenslagerA questionnaire was randomly distributed to members of the United States Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB, OH, with 307 returned.