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This volume makes available a reflection on large-scale engineering for building a better world. International authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service, and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed, implemented and put to u...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Davidson, Frank Paul, 1918-; Grankel, Ernst G.; Meador, C. Lawrence.
Published: Woodhead Publishing,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, England :
Publication Dates: 2011.
©1997
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Horwood Series in Engineering Science
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781898563334
Summary: This volume makes available a reflection on large-scale engineering for building a better world. International authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service, and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed, implemented and put to use. Here are records and commentaries about some of the world's significant engineering achievements, including the planning and design of Nigeria's new capital city, and the use of software by the US military to clean up the Exxon-Valdez oil spill pollution in Alaska. Describes a method of large-scale engineering for building a better worldProvides records and commentaries about significant engineering achievementsInternational authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed and implemented.
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
ISBN: 9781782420576
1782420576
Index Number: TA153
CLC: TU