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The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable access to reliable services. Global Engineering envisions a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and prosperity. This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the opportunity to identify a product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions. However, the structural and historical barriers to global prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise with which we are conversant. Engineers must become activists and advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity. Engineers must leverage our professional skills and capacity to generate evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities and improving lives. Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated their careers to searching for solutions to global development challenges. These stories introduce the reader to the diverse opportunities and challenges in Global Engineering. .

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Didactics of technology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- sociologie --- technologie --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- milieubeleid --- milieuzorg --- ingenieurswetenschappen

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The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) at its core. A dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) declares a commitment to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all." Monitoring progress toward this goal will be challenging: direct measures of water and sanitation service quality and use are either expensive or elusive. However, reliance on household surveys poses limitations and likely overstated progress during the Millennium Development Goal period.In Innovations in WASH Impact Measures: Water and Sanitation Measurement Technologies and Practices to Inform the Sustainable Development Goals, we review the landscape of proven and emerging technologies, methods, and approaches that can support and improve on the WASH indicators proposed for SDG target 6.1, "by 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all," and target 6.2, "by 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations." Although some of these technologies and methods are readily available, other promising approaches require further field evaluation and cost reductions.Emergent technologies, methods, and data-sharing platforms are increasingly aligned with program impact monitoring. Improved monitoring of water and sanitation interventions may allow more cost-effective and measurable results. In many cases, technologies and methods allow more complete and impartial data in time to allow program improvements. Of the myriad monitoring and evaluation methods, each has its own advantages and limitations. Surveys, ethnographies, and direct observation give context to more continuous and objective electronic sensor data. Overall, combined methodologies can provide a more comprehensive and instructive depiction of WASH usage and help the international development community measure our progress toward reaching the SDG WASH goals.

Evaluation --- Hygiene --- Indicators --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Sanitation --- Surveys --- Sustainable Development Goals --- Technologies --- Usage --- Water Supply

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902 <33> --- Archeologie--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- 902 <33> Archeologie--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Palestine --- Antiquities --- Social life and customs --- Civilization --- Excavations (Archaeology)

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This volume highlights some of the challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the gap between intent and impact. These include impact crediting systems, objective evidence gathering tools, and social businesses that service environmental health. The case studies presented cross disciplines, scales, organizational and national boundaries and can defy easy categorization. A water project may be designed for a health impact, but financed with a climate change tool, and leverage high tech cell phone sensors. A cookstove program may be primarily concerned with employment and capacity building, but balance environmental and health concerns. Presently, the impact of interventions may not always be aligned to the intent sought. In this book, readers will discover alternative ways to move the mindset of funders and implementers toward pay-for-performance models of humanitarian and environmental interventions. Undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, global health, appropriate technology, international development and development engineering would benefit from these increasingly non-traditional case studies that challenge commonly accepted presentations of poverty reduction and social enterprise.

Environmental Health --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Environmental health. --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Environmental Medicine. --- Social policy. --- Climatic changes. --- Economic policy. --- Environmental Health. --- Water and Health. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Social Policy. --- Climate Change. --- R & D/Technology Policy. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Environmental management. --- Climate change. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Global environmental change

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ACHESON, DEAN, 1893-1971--BIOGRAPHY --- BOHLEN, CHARLES EUSTIS--BIOGRAPHY --- LOVETT, ROBERT ABERCROMBIE--BIOGRAPHY --- MACCLOY, JOHN JAY--BIOGRAPHY --- USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- HARRIMAN, WILLIAM AVERELL--BIOGRAPHY --- KENNAN, GEORGE FROST, 1904-