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Achieving and maintaining a sustainable civilization. Introduction / Richard Wright, Barbara Luke, and Alan Perks ; Sustainability defined / Richard Wright, William Kelly, and Mikhail Chester ; Is civilization sustainable? / Richard Wright and William Kelly ; Processes for achieving a sustainable civilization / Richard Wright and William Kelly ; Role of the built environment, including sustainable cities / Mark Gibbs, Gord Lovegrove, and Lionel Lemay ; Role of the civil engineer / Dennis Randolph, Gord Lovegrove, Cody Briggs, Mark Gibbs, Stephen Fisher, Lionel Lemay, Alan Perks, and Ashvin A. Shah -- Civil engineering principles and practices for sustainability. Economic aspects / Diana Hasegan and Alan Perks ; Environmental aspects / Krishna Reddy, Lionel Lemay, Amlan Mukherjee, and Jeffrey Adams ; Social aspects / William Kelly, Krishna Reddy, Gord Lovegrove, Stephen Fisher, Lionel Lemay, Cliff Davidson, and Bruce McDowell ; Access and mobility : integrating sustainable transportation with the built environment / Dennis Randolph, Cris B. Liban, Gord Lovegrove, and Michelle R. Oswald Beiler ; Ecological systems / Diana Hasegan and Gord Lovegrove ; Sustainable land use / Richard Wright ; Community participation / Frank Blechman, Cliff Davidson, and William Kelly ; Project management for sustainable infrastructure / William Kelly and Derek Chisolm ; Waste management : conservation, reuse, and recycling of materials and components / Uta Krogmann, Cris B. Liban, Anand Puppala, and Krishna Reddy ; Water resources : sustaining quality and quantity / Karen Kabbes, Joseph Reichenberger, Cody Briggs, Cliff Davidson, and Alan Perks ; Lighting, noise and vibration control, and air quality / Gord Lovegrove ; Resilience / Mark Gibbs, Lionel, Lemay, and Ted Vinson ; Mitigating and adapting to climate change / Lionel Lemay, Krishna Reddy, Dennis Randolph, and Ashvin Shah ; Sustainable project rating systems, including Envision / Derek Chisholm, Krishna Reddy, and Michelle R. Oswald Beiler ; Rising above routine practice / Alan Perks -- Case studies. Low-impact development for a high-density residential development in Hong Kong / Edwin Fung ; Environmental lifecycle assessment of public transit in Los Angeles / Mikhail V. Chester and Cris B. Liban ; Curitiba, Brazil : how did their civil engineers do it? From a city of slums to a sustainability leader in 30 years / Gord Lovegrove ; Saving the rain in Onondaga County, New York / Carli Flynn and Cliff Davidson ; Edmonton Waste Management Centre / Roy Neehall and Bud Latta ; Cambridge’s Alewife Stormwater Wetland / Emerson Olander and Catherine Daly Woodbury ; Chari Chari Bridge, Omereque, Cochabamba, Bolivia / Scott Snelling, Preston Vineyard, and Tom Cooper ; The Center for Sustainable Landscapes, Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh / Richard V. Piacentini, Adam Haas, and Jason Wirick ; Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island / William Kelly ; Cerro Dominador Concentration Solar Plant / Cristina Contreras ; Redesign of I-75 in Cincinnati / Paul Ostergaard -- Summary and conclusions. Summary and conclusions / William Kelly, Barbara Luke, and Richard Wright -- Appendix 1 : ASCE’s policies and programs for sustainability and resilience / Richard Wright and William Kelly. |
