Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability

Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be truly ethical both the undertaking itself and its implementation must be ethically sound.

The contributors discuss varied topics from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, including

l robot ethics;

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