Humanitarian Engineering

by David Muñoz and Carl Mitcham

Humanitarian Engineering reviews the development of engineering as a distinct profession and of the humanitarian movement as a special socio-political practice. Having noted that the two developments were situated in the same geographical and historical space -- that is, in Europe and North America beginning in the 1700s -- the book argues for a mutual influence and synthesis that has previously been lacking. In this spirit, the first of two central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031799631
• ISBN13: 9783031799631
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 73 Pages