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12. Sustainability Concerns

verfasst von : Ronald A. Chadderton

Erschienen in: Purposeful Engineering Economics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Why include sustainability concerns in this book about engineering economy? We are not training sustainability specialists. I believe the case can be made that engineers, especially civil engineers, have always been implicitly sustainable; they do not design unsustainable projects intentionally. The primary reason to discuss sustainability might be the mandate by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) that engineering programs must include sustainability within an undergraduate curriculum to gain full accreditation. Another reason might be to ensure that engineering students have some idea about the multi-dimensional characteristic of “sustainability” as well as its limitations.

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Metadaten
Titel
Sustainability Concerns
verfasst von
Ronald A. Chadderton
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18848-5_12

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