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Engineering and Sustainable Community Development Paperback – 30 March 2010
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This book, Engineering and Sustainable Community Development, presents an overview of engineering as it relates to humanitarian engineering, service learning engineering, or engineering for community development, often called sustainable community development (SCD). The topics covered include a history of engineers and development, the problems of using industry-based practices when designing for communities, how engineers can prepare to work with communities, and listening in community development. It also includes two case studies -- one of engineers developing a windmill for a community in India, and a second of an engineer ""mapping communities"" in Honduras to empower people to use water effectively -- and student perspectives and experiences on one curricular model dealing with community development.
- Print length230 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMorgan & Claypool Publishers
- Publication date30 March 2010
- Dimensions19.05 x 1.35 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-101608450708
- ISBN-13978-1608450701
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- Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers (30 March 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 230 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1608450708
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608450701
- Dimensions : 19.05 x 1.35 x 23.5 cm
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Howard Duhon
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Engineering and Sustainable Community Development
Reviewed in the United States on 13 November 2012Verified Purchase
A remarkably enlightening book. I saw Jen Schneider (one of the authors) speak at a conference recently and was intrigued by her discussion of the deficit model. It says that we tend to view others who disagree with us as having a knowledge deficit; that if they only knew what we know they would agree. Having now been exposed to the idea, I see it play out in engineering work generally, not simply in community development projects. In particular, I think that it is a good model for interactions between design engineers and control room operators. I'm also seeing it other places like politics. Certainly anyone planning to do community development engineering projects should read this book.

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Reviewed in the United States on 8 February 2013Verified Purchase
Teaches you how to go about thinking of solving this great problem that our aid in third world development is often unsustained. Great resource especially for teaching and learning about aid projects.