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How Big And Still Beautiful?: Macro- Engineering Revisited

Editat de Frank P. Davidson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 iun 2019
This volume examines fundamental issues of macro-engineering—now a planetary norm—from the viewpoints of psychiatry, social science, management, and law. The contributors suggest a general theory to guide future decisions on large-scale projects and programs and analyze specific cases in the context of a set of public-interest guidelines.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367022099
ISBN-10: 0367022095
Pagini: 412
Dimensiuni: 145 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Dilemmas of Scale and the Training of Future Engineer-Managers -- Evaluating the Impacts -- Finance, Management and Control -- Macro-Projects and Macro-Finance -- Evaluation of Macro-Systems: Models and Case Analysis -- Macro-Engineering: How to Decide -- Managing Macro-Development: Policy, Planning and Control System Implications -- Values, Psychology and the Decision Process -- On Large-Scale Undertakings and Human Values -- A Psychiatrist Reflects on Macro-Engineering -- Macro-Engineering and Social Psychiatry -- How Big and Still Beautiful? A Reprise -- Cases in Point: Land, Sea and Aerospace -- Transforming the Urban and Rural Environments -- Macro-Project in West Africa: Planning Nigeria’s New Capital -- Cities of the Future: The Maritime Dimension -- The Future of Rural Technology -- Perspectives on Tansportation -- The Erie Canal: Macro-Engineering When the World Was Still Simple -- The Future of Large Airships -- Global Transport Systems for the Turn of the Century -- Solar Power Satellites and Automation in Space -- Solar Energy Economics: Orbiting Reflectors for World Energy -- Robots and Automation in the Space Program

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This volume examines fundamental issues of macro-engineering—now a planetary norm—from the viewpoints of psychiatry, social science, management, and law. The contributors suggest a general theory to guide future decisions on large-scale projects and programs and analyze specific cases in the context of a set of public-interest guidelines.