The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is
inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global
prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and
identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and
unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water,
sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As engineers,
we should place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants,
and solutions to increasing equitable access to reliable services.
Global Engineering envisions a world where everyone has safe water,
sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure, and can live in
health, dignity, and prosperity.This book seeks to examine the role
and ultimately the impact of engineers in global
development. Engineers are solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the
opportunity to identify a product or need, and design appropriate
technical solutions. However, the structural andhistorical barriers to
global prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on
improving the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we
include health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant
expertise with which we are conversant. Engineers must become
activists and advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches
that suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity.
Engineers must leverage our professional skills and capacity to
generate evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities
and improving lives.Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of
engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated their
careers to searching for solutions to global development challenges.
These stories introduce the reader to the diverse opportunities and
challenges in Global Engineering.
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ISBN
9783030502638
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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