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Engineering Earth

The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Stanley D. Brunn

    1. Dept. Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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  • The first major work that addresses the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary nature of earth engineering with original chapters by leading scholars from the social, environmental and engineering sciences on megaengineering projects on regions, economies, cultures, and landscapes
  • Detailed maps and photographs illustrate the megaprojects themselves and impacts on societies, regions, and economies
  • A pioneering volume that documents and illustrates the scale and impacts of many megaprojects

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Table of contents (126 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lxxi
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  3. GIS, ICTs and K-Economies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Information Technology as Megaengineering: The Impact of GIS

      • Michael F. Goodchild
      Pages 37-47

    3. Google and the Internet: A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project

      • Maria Paradiso
      Pages 49-65

    4. Cloud Collaboration: Peer-Production and the Engineering of the internet

      • Mark Graham
      Pages 67-83

    5. Engineering Community and Place: Facebook as Megaengineering

      • Michael Longan, Darren Purcell
      Pages 85-101

    6. Real-Time National Stability Engineering: Mapping the 2009 Afghan Election

      • Tom Buckley, Sean Gorman, Laurie Schintler, Rajendra Kulkarni
      Pages 103-113

    7. Engineering Time and Space with the Global Fiber Optics Industry

      • Barney Warf
      Pages 115-129

    8. The Internet in Three Finnish Cities: Accessing Global Networks

      • Tommi Inkinen
      Pages 131-143

    9. ICTs and Activities on the Move? People’s Use of Time While Traveling by Public Transportation

      • Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Daniel Fahlén
      Pages 145-154

    10. Assembling Video Game Worlds

      • Ian Graham Ronald Shaw
      Pages 155-171

    11. GPS Collars in Studies of Cattle Movement: Cases of Northeast Namibia and North Finland

      • Katja Polojärvi, Alfred Colpaert, Kenneth Matengu, Jouko Kumpula
      Pages 173-187

    12. Engineering Cattle for Dairy Development in Rural India

      • Pratyusha Basu
      Pages 189-215

    13. Social Responses to Crop Biotechnology: Bt Cotton Cultivation in Gujarat, India

      • Esha Shah
      Pages 217-233

  4. Agriculture, Fishing and Mining Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Turning the Soviet Union into Iowa: The Virgin Lands Program in the Soviet Union

      • William C. Rowe
      Pages 237-256

    3. The Megaengineering of Ocean Fisheries: A Century of Expansion and Rapidly Closing Frontiers

      • Maarten Bavinck
      Pages 257-273
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About this book

This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    Stanley D. Brunn

About the editor

Professor Brunn has major interests in the human/environmental and environmental topics, emerging areas of cross-disciplinary and international research. He has published books on social, political, urban, information and communication geography as well as on the geopolitical implications of 11 September, technological hazards, and geography and technology. With Kluwer/Springer he published Geography and Technology (Kluwer, 2004), a 28 chapter book for the centennial of the Association of American Geographers.

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