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Author |
: Kregg Hetherington |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2018-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478002567 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478002565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene by : Kregg Hetherington
Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future. Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Andrea Ballestero, Bruce Braun, Ashley Carse, Gastón R. Gordillo, Kregg Hetherington, Casper Bruun Jensen, Joseph Masco, Shaylih Muehlmann, Natasha Myers, Stephanie Wakefield, Austin Zeiderman
Author |
: Anna Krakowiak-Bal |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3030165442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783030165444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infrastructure and Environment by : Anna Krakowiak-Bal
This book constitutes the 25th International Conference on Infrastructure and Environment (infraeco 2018) that focuses on rural problems connected with infrastructural equipment. In general, infrastructure issues are dedicated to urban areas while rural topics are linked to agriculture so this conference bridges these two aspects. It also explores ways to manage and separate conflicts between different and important needs of inhabitants, the environment, and other spatial users. The conference provides a forum for much needed cooperation between various scientific disciplines regarding these multidisciplinary problems and issues; hence, Infraeco 2018 draws together engineers, planners, consultants, land developers, and academics from across all disciplines of highway planning, design, operations, and engineering to presents effective practices and share current research results.
Author |
: S. Bry Sarte |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2010-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780470912942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0470912944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sustainable Infrastructure by : S. Bry Sarte
As more factors, perspectives, and metrics are incorporated into the planning and building process, the roles of engineers and designers are increasingly being fused together. Sustainable Infrastructure explores this trend with in-depth look at sustainable engineering practices in an urban design as it involves watershed master-planning, green building, optimizing water reuse, reclaiming urban spaces, green streets initiatives, and sustainable master-planning. This complete guide provides guidance on the role creative thinking and collaborative team-building play in meeting solutions needed to affect a sustainable transformation of the built environment.
Author |
: Spiro Pollalis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2013-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136320392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136320393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infrastructure Sustainability and Design by : Spiro Pollalis
You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the roles team members hold, and design approaches, including alternative development and financing structures. They also discuss the challenges and opportunities of sustainability within infrastructural systems, such as those for energy, water, and waste, so that you know what's possible. And best of all, they present here for the first time the Zofnass Environmental Evaluation Methodology guidelines, which will help you and your team improve infrastructure design, engineering, and construction.
Author |
: Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1523125829 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781523125821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate-Resilient Infrastructure by : Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate
Abstract: Prepared by the Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate of ASCE Civil infrastructure systems traditionally have been designed for appropriate functionality, durability, and safety for climate and weather extremes during their full-service lives; however, climate scientists inform us that the extremes of climate and weather have altered from historical values in ways difficult to predict or project. Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management, MOP 140, provides guidance for and contributes to the developing or enhancing of methods for infrastructure analysis and design in a world in which risk profiles are changing and can be projected with varying degrees of uncertainty requiring a new design philosophy to meet this challenge. The underlying approaches in this manual of practice (MOP) are based on probabilistic methods for quantitative risk analysis, and the design framework provided focuses on identifying and analyzing low-regret, adaptive strategies to make a project more resilient. Beginning with an overview of the driving forces and hazards associated with a changing climate, subsequent chapters in MOP 140 provide observational methods, illustrative examples, and case studies; estimation of extreme events particularly related to precipitation with guidance on monitoring and measuring methods; flood design criteria and the development of project design flood elevations; computational methods of determining flood loads; adaptive design and adaptive risk management in the context of life-cycle engineering and economics; and climate resilience technologies. MOP 140 will be of interest to engineers, researchers, planners, and other stakeholders charged with adaptive design decisions to achieve infrastructure resilience targets while minimizing life-cycle costs in a changing climate
Author |
: Emily Brownell |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2020-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822987451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822987457 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gone to Ground by : Emily Brownell
Gone to Ground is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the center of this shift. Built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports, Emily Brownell writes about how urbanites navigated the state’s anti-urban planning policies along with the city’s fracturing infrastructures and profound shortages of staple goods to shape Dar’s environment. They did so most frequently by “going to ground” in the urban periphery, orienting their lives to the city’s outskirts where they could plant small farms, find building materials, produce charcoal, and escape the state’s policing of urban space. Taking seriously as historical subject the daily hurdles of families to find housing, food, transportation, and space in the city, these quotidian concerns are drawn into conversation with broader national and transnational anxieties about the oil crisis, resource shortages, infrastructure, and African socialism. In bringing these concerns together into the same frame, Gone to Ground considers how the material and political anxieties of the era were made manifest in debates about building materials, imported technologies, urban agriculture, energy use, and who defines living and laboring in the city.
Author |
: Emmanuel Kreike |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2013-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107001510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110700151X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Infrastructure in African History by : Emmanuel Kreike
Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change.
Author |
: Michael R. Penn |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2011-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780470411919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0470411910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to Infrastructure by : Michael R. Penn
Introduction to Infrastructure: An Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering breaks new ground in preparing civil and environmental engineers to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The authors use the infrastructure that is all around us to introduce students to civil and environmental engineering, demonstrating how all the parts of civil and environmental engineering are interrelated to help students see the "big picture" in the first or second year of the curriculum. Students learn not only the what of the infrastructure, but also the how and the why of the infrastructure. Readers learn the infrastructure is a system of interrelated physical components, and how those components affect, and are affected by, society, politics, economics, and the environment. Studying infrastructure allows educators and students to develop a valuable link between fundamental knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge, so students may translate their knowledge to new contexts. The authors' implementation of modern learning pedagogy (learning objectives, concrete examples and cases, and hundreds of photos and illustrations), and chapters that map well to the ABET accreditation requirements AND the ASCE Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge 2nd edition (with recommendations for using this text in a 1, 2, or 3 hour course) make this text a key part of any civil and/or environmental engineering curriculum.
Author |
: Krishna R. Reddy |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2020-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030513542 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030513548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sustainable Environment and Infrastructure by : Krishna R. Reddy
This volume contains selects papers presented during the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials and Sustainable Engineering, held in the University of Illinois at Chicago. It covers the recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered, and the solutions adopted in waste management and engineering, geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, infrastructure engineering, and sustainable engineering. This book will be useful for academics, educators, policy makers and professionals working in the field of civil engineering, chemical engineering, environmental sciences and public policy.
Author |
: Giacomo Bonan |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2023-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111114132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111114139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environment and Infrastructure by : Giacomo Bonan
The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex infrastructures based on interwoven social and natural elements. Analyzing infrastructures from many methodological and thematic perspectives, the present volume adopts an extensive periodization to identify the undeniable changes caused by industrialization and the persistence of pre-existing features and dynamics. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 1990s and deepen historical characteristics of urban metabolism, the study of energy systems and their transitions, and the management and control of water resources. These reveal the strategies societies and states adopted to transform and adapt their surrounding environment in a constant and challenging equilibrium of diverse interests, whose impact over time has had environmental consequences on a global scale.