Macro-Engineering and the Earth World Projects for the Year 2000 and Beyond A Festchrift in Honour of Frank Davidson

Some twenty engineers and scholars identify problems in the next century whose solutions call for international political planning and a more collaborative, peaceful and prosperous world order. Contents: Turbines with a Twist; Power from Space; Electricity Development; Saving the Earth The Whole Earth; Large Climate Changing Projects; A Sustainable Global City; A New Urban Model; World Water Supply Issues; A Rhone-Algeria Aqueduct; Ocean Farming; World-Scale Seamless Transportation; An Asia-Europe Railway and a Middle-East Isl Swiss Trans-Alpine Tunnel Projects; Satellites in World Communications; Global Military and Civilian Telemedici Starting a Macro-Project on the Right Foot; Leadership: Authoritarian or Collaborative?; High-Performance Partnering Practices; Military-Civilian Conservation Corps; Prime Contracting: Profit with Peril?; Managing Price Through Knowledge Networking; Concepts of Eminent Domain; Macro-Projects in China; Challenges for the Twenty-First Century.Kitzinger, Uwe is the author of 'Macro-Engineering and the Earth World Projects for the Year 2000 and Beyond A Festchrift in Honour of Frank Davidson' with ISBN 9781898563594 and ISBN 1898563594.