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Sustainability: An integral engineering design approach

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The work described in this paper won an Engineering Award from the UNESCO and the United Nations. It qualified among the top 30 finalists from a pool of about 3200 engineering entries from the world's most prestigious universities in 89 countries, including Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, Stanford and Yale. This paper describes the methods employed in a sustainability project titled 'Global Basic Needs in an Integrated Sustainable Approach' submitted by the author to the UNESCO in agreement with the United Nations Millennium Goals and within their framework of the Mondialogo Engineering Award. A six-nation international jury of renowned leading scientists and engineers selected this project for a nomination award. While we all anxiously wait for science to provide the solutions to global warming and catastrophic climate change, a holistic engineering approach was used to halt pollution, and to provide sustainable shelter, clean water, energy, food and education to the global population. This approach can be used anywhere in the world and conceptualizes a revolutionary sustainability paradigm for present and future societies. This work is a contribution to the advancement of the science of sustainability everywhere on the planet.

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  • Pereira, Tony, 2009. "Sustainability: An integral engineering design approach," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 13(5), pages 1133-1137, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:13:y:2009:i:5:p:1133-1137
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