Climate change, energy, sustainability and pavements [electronic resource] / Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Wynand JvdM Steyn, John Harvey, editors.

9783662447192 electronic book
3662447193 electronic book
9783662447185
3662447185

Heidelberg : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource (viii, 517 pages) : illustrations (some color).

10.1007/978-3-662-44719-2 doi

TE250

625.8

Climate change, energy production and consumption, and the need to improve the sustainability of all aspects of human activity are key inter-related issues for which solutions must be found and implemented quickly and efficiently. To be successfully implemented, solutions must recognize the rapidly changing socio-techno-political environment and multi-dimensional constraints presented by today?s interconnected world. As part of this global effort, considerations of climate change impacts, energy demands, and incorporation of sustainability concepts have increasing importance in the design, construction, and maintenance of highway and airport pavement systems. To prepare the human capacity to develop and implement these solutions, many educators, policy-makers and practitioners have stressed the paramount importance of formally incorporating sustainability concepts in the civil engineering curriculum to educate and train future civil engineers well-equipped to address our current and future sustainability challenges. This book will prove a valuable resource in the hands of researchers, educators and future engineering leaders, most of whom will be working in multidisciplinary environments to address a host of next-generation sustainable transportation infrastructure challenges.

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Green energy and technology.

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