7.4 Climate Change, Poverty, Globalisation and Engineering Linkages

There are links between all of the themes discussed so far, and engineering is a central aspect which applies to these topics.

 Above table developed by the University of Nottingham

For each of the blue boxes above, write down as many factors that you can think of that apply to the highlighted impact. For example an impact of climate change on poverty is that the areas affected by climate change are often were the poorest people live (e.g. desertification in Africa). Conversely an impact of poverty on climate change is that poor people cannot afford to have environmental concerns, forcing them to consume natural resources such as trees to stay alive.

Below are listed the four aspects (climate change, poverty, globalisation and engineering) and for each are listed important factors of how they are linked to each other. The information is taken from "The Global Engineer - Incorporating global skills within UK higher education of engineers" a report funded by the Department for International Development and written by Engineers Against Poverty and the Institute of Education, University of London. It is reproduced here with permission from the authors.