Pragmatic Engineering and Lifestyle: Responsible Engineering for a Sustainable Future

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· Emerald Group Publishing
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The most productive way to engage society as a whole with issues of sustainability is to involve them in the development and execution of the solutions. Pragmatic Engineering and Lifestyle draws together international experts from engineering and architecture to disclose the latest insights into forging viable means to sustain tomorrow’s needs.

Focusing on breaking through the remaining barriers and fully realizing promising remedies by explicitly examining the social aspect of engineering and urban design, the authors present state of the art research on, among other topics, simple and responsible engineering and living, ecological and socially friendly buildings and infrastructures, socially resilient farming, and agroecology.

Pragmatic Engineering and Lifestyle is an indispensable collection for tomorrow's engineers, architects, and policy makers.

About the author

David S-K. Ting is the founder of the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory, University of Windsor, Canada. Professor Ting’s research has focused on combustion and turbulence, followed by convection heat transfer and fluid-structure interaction. He is currently supervising students primarily in energy and thermofluids.

Jacqueline A. Stagner is the Undergraduate Programs Coordinator in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Stagner is a professional engineer with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering and supervises research students primarily in sustainable energy and living in the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory.

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