Abstract:

Sustainable development, especially since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development at Rio de Janeiro, has become an increasingly important theme in local, national and world politics, and increasingly a central theme for the engineering professions around the world. The sustainable development concept requires of all of us - as engineers and citizens - to consider much more widely than before the impact of our own lives and of the infrastructure and products we produce, both geographically and temporally.

  RAEng Guide as printed.pdf (2.21 MB, 06 September 2008)