
Environmental Ethics For Engineers
Alastair S. Gunn(Author)
CRC Press
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2017
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-315-89266-5 (ISBN)
Description
We have used this book, manuscript form, as supplemental reading in our environmental engineering classes at Duke University. The discussion of ethics is usually reserved for the final few days of class, when the students should start asking 'so what? about course material. We respond to this question by covering the principles of ethics in one lecture and spending two or more sessions discussing various readings. Engineering students who have spent four years learning how to crunch numbers and to solve technical problems to three significant figures admit that the study of environmental ethics introduces new and exciting concepts into their professional thinking, and provides a perspective which otherwise would be missing from their education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-315-89266-5 (9781315892665)
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Alastair S. Gunn
Environmental Ethics For Engineers
E-Book
01/2018
1st Edition
CRC Press
€225.99
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Person
Alastair S Gunn
Content
1. Ethics and Ethical Conduct in Engineering Practice 2. Environmental Ethics 3. Environmental Ethics and Professional Engineering 4. The Land Ethics 5. The Tragedy of the Commons 6. The Kepone Tragedy 7. The Hooker Memos 8. The Bunker Hill Lead Smelter 9. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering 10. Decision Making in the Corps of Engineers 11. Moral Development and Professional Engineering 12. Should Trees have Standing