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The Global Engineers - Building a Safe and Equitable World Together (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Global Engineers - Building a Safe and Equitable World Together (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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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 and historical 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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