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Engineering : issues, challenges and opportunities for development.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Unesco reportPublication details: [Paris] : UNESCO Publishing, 2010.Description: 396 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9789231041563
  • 9231041568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 22
LOC classification:
  • TA145 .E49 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available online.
Partial contents:
Introduction to the report -- What is engineering? -- Engineering and human development -- Engineering : emerging issues and challenges -- An overview of engineering -- Engineering around the world -- Engineering for development : applications and infrastructure -- Engineering capacity : education, training and mobility -- Afterword.
Summary: This report reviews engineering's importance to human, economic, social and cultural development and in addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals. Engineering tends to be viewed as a national issue, but engineering knowledge, companies, conferences and journals, all demonstrate that it is as international as science. The report reviews the role of engineering in development, and covers issues including poverty reduction, sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation. It presents the various fields of engineering around the world and is intended to identify issues and challenges facing engineering, promote better understanding of engineering and its role, and highlight ways of making engineering more attractive to young people, especially women.--Publisher's description.
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Books Books Kenya National Commission for UNESCO Non-fiction 6.50ENG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c1 Available RC06019

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the report -- What is engineering? -- Engineering and human development -- Engineering : emerging issues and challenges -- An overview of engineering -- Engineering around the world -- Engineering for development : applications and infrastructure -- Engineering capacity : education, training and mobility -- Afterword.

This report reviews engineering's importance to human, economic, social and cultural development and in addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals. Engineering tends to be viewed as a national issue, but engineering knowledge, companies, conferences and journals, all demonstrate that it is as international as science. The report reviews the role of engineering in development, and covers issues including poverty reduction, sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation. It presents the various fields of engineering around the world and is intended to identify issues and challenges facing engineering, promote better understanding of engineering and its role, and highlight ways of making engineering more attractive to young people, especially women.--Publisher's description.

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