Engineering Within Ecological Constraints

by Peter Schulze and National Academy of Engineering

Engineering within Ecological Constraints presents a rare dialogue between engineers and environmental scientists as they consider the many technical as well as social and legal challenges of ecologically sensitive engineering. The volume looks at the concepts of scale, resilience, and chaos as they apply to the points where the ecological life support system of nature interacts with the technological life support system created by humankind. Among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309051983
• ISBN13: 9780309051989
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"