Earth Systems Engineering and Management: A Manifesto

Allenby, Braden

doi:10.1021/es072657r

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“…This allows the identification of three major systems impacts of technological evolution in the age of the anthropogenic earth, and earth systems engineering and management (Allenby 2007b): destabilization (social, technological, institutional, and economic), accelerating complexity, and radical contingency. Each affects engineering in different ways.…”

Section: Technology Systems In the Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable engineering education in the United States

Allenby

Murphy²,

Allen

et al. 2009

Sustain Sci

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Sustainable engineering is a conceptual and practical challenge to all engineering disciplines. Although the profession has experience with environmental dimensions of engineering activities that in some cases are quite deep, extending the existing body of practice to sustainable engineering by including social and cultural domains is a significant and non-trivial challenge. Nonetheless, progress is being made, as a recent study undertaken by the Center for Sustainable Engineering in the United States demonstrates.

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Section: Technology Systems In the Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable engineering education in the United States

Allenby

Murphy²,

Allen

et al. 2009

Sustain Sci

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“…The result over a period of a few short centuries was the terraforming of a planet. Not only did human systems from economics to technology to culture change in unpredictable and fundamental ways, but the dynamics of virtually all major natural systems were increasingly affected by human activity (Allenby, ; Turner, ). The Industrial Revolution fostered a rapid acceleration in the growth of patterns of energy and water use, environmental impacts of all kinds, human population levels and urbanization, economic growth, technological complexity, and the built infrastructure to support it all, patterns that show little signs of slowing (Allenby, ).…”

Section: Welcome To the Anthropocenementioning

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Infrastructure and the environment in the Anthropocene

Chester

Markolf

Allenby

2019

J of Industrial Ecology

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For centuries, man‐made infrastructure has been viewed as separate from natural systems. Yet in the past few centuries, as the scale and scope of human activities have dramatically increased, there is accumulating evidence that natural systems are becoming increasingly, and in some cases entirely, managed by humans. The dichotomy between infrastructure and the environment is narrowing, and natural systems are increasingly becoming human design spaces. This is already apparent with the management of hydrologic systems for urban water supply, wildlife, agriculture, forests, and even the atmosphere, and we can expect management of the environment to become more so as human activities grow. Yet our infrastructure largely remains obdurate. They are designed to last for long times even as changes in the environment and technology accelerate. As such, our current infrastructure paradigms fail at the level of the complex, integrated systems and behaviors that characterize the Anthropogenic Earth. Infrastructure in the future will need to be designed for adaptive capacity and the complexities associated with techno‐environmental systems.

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“…Allenby (2007) provides an excellent introduction to the myriad management issues society faces as human impact on Earth becomes increasingly intertwined with that of nature. He establishes a series of principles to guide human interaction with Earth's systems, among them "only intervene when necessary, and then only to the extent required, in complex systems."…”

Section: Should Humans Overtly Influence Climate?mentioning

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Achieving Climate Sustainability

Gail¹

2010

Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.

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Earth Systems Engineering and Management: A Manifesto

Cited by 39 publications

References 29 publications

Sustainable engineering education in the United States

Sustainable engineering education in the United States

Infrastructure and the environment in the Anthropocene

Achieving Climate Sustainability

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