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Engineering for Climate Change

The adaptation challenge and the role for engineers

 Engineering for Climate Change
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Presented at 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008, published in , pp. 10-26
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796219390
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In recent decades it has become clear that there can be no viable future for humanity without a healthy planet. Earth, water and air support the existence of an immensely complex living system, p...
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Author(s): (Head of Global Planning, Arup London, UK)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008
Published in:
Page(s): 10-26 Total no. of pages: 17
Page(s): 10-26
Total no. of pages: 17
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796219390
Abstract:

In recent decades it has become clear that there can be no viable future for humanity without a healthy planet. Earth, water and air support the existence of an immensely complex living system, powered by the sun. We are part of this web of life and within a few generations we are using up most of the earth’s stored fossil fuel resources. Their transfer from the earth to the atmosphere is significantly altering its composition. From our ever expanding urban centres, our tentacles now spread across the world. Our globalising economic system is destabilising the planet’s life-support systems-the very systems that support us and the future of our children.