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Bill Wallace wrote an excellent overview (circa 2005) of sustainable development which can still help engineers begin to form ideas about how to integrate sustainability and resilience into direct engineering practice. Becoming part of the solution [1] directly mentions the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and Agenda 21, which have evolved into the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030. Wallace updated my 1998 perspective to see 2005 state of the art and raised my curiosity. Wallace also helped FIDIC develop a sustainability framework engineers in international practice still use: Project Sustainability Management.
Listen to a short interview with Bill [2], find some key insights in less than 15 minutes from 2010.
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Definitely need to dive deeper into resilience and examine its relationship with engineering practice and sustainable society. Consider that we need the following so that we can be resilient [1]. How could we integrate these into our design reasoning?
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What if industry can't function without hydrocarbon fossil fuels? What if we can't harvest renewable energy sources without fossil fuels?
Let's compare a society that carefully and thoughtfully uses its most dangerous, most damaging fuels.
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