Engineering Nonkilling: Scientific Responsibility and the Advancement of Killing-Free Societies

Wagner, David

Evans Pim, Joám

Haws, David

Bhaneja, Balwant

Drago, Antonino

Mushtaq, Usman

Nosrat, Amir

Bowen, W. Richard

Patkar, Vivek

D’Ambrosio, Ubiratan

Science & Math

Center for Global Nonkilling

This book will focus on "Waste Management," a serious global issue and engineers' responsibility towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result of globalization, industrialization, and rapid economic development. However, low-income and marginalized sectors in society suffer most from the unfavorable conditions deriving from poor waste management. Solid waste management is not a mere technical challenge. The environmental impact, socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal, and political aspects are fundamental in planning, designing, and maintaining a sustainable waste management system in any country. Engineers have a major role to play in designing proper systems that integrate stakeholders, waste system elements, and sustainability aspects of waste management. This book is part of a focused collection from a project on Engineering and Education for Social and Environmental Justice. It takes an explicitly social and environmental justice stance on waste and attempts to assess the social impact of waste management on those who are also the most economically vulnerable and least powerful in the society. We hope that this book will assist our readers to think critically and understand the framework of socially and environmentally just waste management. Table of Contents: Introduction / Towards a Just Politics of Waste Management / Expertise, Indigenous People, and the Site 41 Landfill / Waste Management in the Global North / Waste Management in the Global South: A Sri Lankan Case Study / Assessing the Feasibility of Waste for Life in the Western Province of Sri Lanka

The Garbage Crisis: A Global Challenge for Engineers (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society, 18)

Politics & Social Sciences

Baillie, Caroline

Jayasinghe, Randika

Smythe, Toni Alyce

Philosophy

Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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