Overview
- The first major work that addresses the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary nature of earth engineering with original chapters by leading scholars from the social, environmental and engineering sciences on megaengineering projects on regions, economies, cultures, and landscapes
- Detailed maps and photographs illustrate the megaprojects themselves and impacts on societies, regions, and economies
- A pioneering volume that documents and illustrates the scale and impacts of many megaprojects
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Keywords
- 2009 Afghan election
- Agriculture
- Alcan highway
- Amenity Landscapes
- Apartheids structure
- Architecture
- Asylum sites
- Border policy
- Capital cities
- Casinos
- Coastal engineering
- Coastal reclamation
- Contruction companies
- Corporation strategies
- Crop biotechnology
- Cyberspace
- Dairy development
- Dams
- Deep-Sea mining
- Deep-drilling
- Detentional landscapes
- Diamond mining
- Earth moving
- Earth restoration project
- Ecological Apocalypse
- Edge cities
- Energy megaprojects
- Fishing
- Floating bags
- Floating cities
- GIS
- GPS collars
- Geo-engineering
- Geography
- Global warming
- Green belts
- Hydroelectricity
- ICT
- Intermodal terminals
- Internet
- Interstate highway system
- Irrigation
- K-economies
- Kursk magnetic anomaly
- Large engineering projects
- Life necessities trade
- Liquid urbanity
- Mega logistics
- Mega-airports
- Megabridges
- Megachurches
- Megadams
- Megaengineering
- Megafacilities
- Megahydraulic engineering
- Megaports
- Mining projects
- Nonferrous metals mining
- Nuclear complex
- Nuclear testing
- Oil
- Olympics
- Permafrost
- Planned retirement communities
- Public transportation
- Reconstructing nature
- Recreation
- River diversion
- Rolling freshwater tires
- Schengen regime
- Sea art
- Socially engineered landscapes
- Soil erosion
- Soil mechanics
- Tourism
- Trans-Saharan railway
- Transamazon highway
- Transfrontier parks
- Transportation
- Urban environment
- Val d Europe
- Virtual gaming worlds
- Water transfer project
- Weather modification
- Worlds Fairs
- cattle movement
Table of contents (126 chapters)
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Tourism, Recreation and Amenity Landscapes
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Reconstructing and Restoring Nature
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River Diversion and Coastal Reclamation Projects
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engineering Earth
Book Subtitle: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects
Editors: Stanley D. Brunn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9920-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9919-8Published: 23 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0475-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9920-4Published: 19 March 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXXI, 2266
Topics: Human Geography, Engineering Design, Physical Geography, Development Economics, Environment, general