Modern challenges and approaches to humanitarian engineering / Yiannis Koumpouros, Angelos Georgoulas, and Georgia Kremmyda, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kremmyda, Georgia, editor.

Georgoulas, Angelos, editor.

Koumpouros, Yiannis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Humanitarianism.

Physical Description:

21 PDFs (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : IGI Global, [2022]

Summary:

"This book is those who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of humanitarian engineering at different levels of the modern world and the various challenges facing our society, covering a wide variety of topics that fall under the domain of technology-based solutions that tackle humanitarian problems, such as pandemics, ageing of population, climate change, social inclusion, extreme poverty and hunger, maternal health and child mortality, and education for all"

Contents:

Chapter 1. Development-oriented approaches to humanitarian responses

Chapter 2. Adaptation efforts and policy guidelines for Bangladesh at global warming of 1.5C, 2C, and 4C: adaptation efforts and policy guidelines for Bangladesh at specific warming levels

Chapter 3. Sustainable management of humanitarian water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions

Chapter 4. The presence and impacts of microplastics in drinking water: their occurrence, detection, removal, and implications

Chapter 5. Coastal hazards management: hard engineering solutions along the Taiwanese and Vietnamese coastline - unintentional consequences and future humanitarian engineering implications

Chapter 6. Community-based waste management model in optimizing waste reduction: waste bank practices in Indonesia

Chapter 7. Lesson learned from public participation in the urban infrastructure projects for engineering: case studies in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Chapter 8. Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox's bazar: a great humanitarian challenge

Chapter 9. Refugee camps: reconsiderations for a new age

Chapter 10. Application of artificial intelligence towards successful ageing: a holistic approach

Chapter 11. Contact tracing apps in the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the underlying personal data processing

Chapter 12. Catching learners early in humanitarian and sustainable principles through chemistry education

Chapter 13. Humanitarian needs and challenges related to the disabled population: a socio-epidemiological study.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-7998-9193-3

1-7998-9192-5

OCLC:

1297842589