Engineering for Climate Change
The adaptation challenge and the role for engineers
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Peter Head
(Head of Global Planning, Arup London, UK)
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| 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: | IABSE Congress Chicago 2008 | ||||
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| 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. |
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