7.4.4 Engineering linkages and impacts

 

 

7.4.4 Engineering linkages and impacts

Impact of engineering on climate change

  • Transport, energy, agriculture, infrastructure and manufacturing choices determine impacts
  • Engineering and innovation key to mitigation and adapt ion
  • Engineering key to disaster preparedness and reconstruction


Impact of engineering on poverty

  • Engineering key to providing pro-poor energy, transport, shelter, health and water products and services
  • Platform infrastructure and technologies provide an enabling environment for growth
  • Engineering supply chains and technology transfer offer poverty reduction opportunities


Impact of engineering on globalisation

  • Engineering knowledge and innovation especially in transport, energy manufacturing and ICT are the drivers behind economic integration and globalisation
  • Sustainability and climate change will force a revised model of engineering and globalisation


The Global Engineer [see reference 14]

Above text sourced from eprints (Bourn, D. and Neal, L. (2012))(Reproduced with permission)
http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/839/