My research career includes projects examining various geography/technology issues, including the impacts of Three Mile Island in 1979 with Jim Johnson and Don Zeigler, co-editing volumes on the geographies of information and communication and E-commerce with my colleague Tom Leinbach, co-editing with Susan Cutter and J. These include memories of nuclear testing years of the 1950s and 1960s, the construction of the Interstate Highway System, mass-produced “cookie cutter” suburbs and the “malling and Wal-Martization” of America,” the computer worlds before the Internet, GIS, and Google Earth, and social justice issues that result from the social engineering of political America. During my lifetime I have witnessed in the many places I have lived, taught and traveled the construction of various megaprojects and vii For many geographers of my generation, we received training in the natural, social, and policy sciences, so studying the impacts of large engineering projects from economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives at local and global scales was understandable. The simple answer is that they are an outgrowth of where I have lived and the many conversations and interactions with friends over the years. As I was organizing the conference and also editing this volume, I was asked often how I became interested in the engineering earth topic and megaprojects specifically. As a long time friend, a fellow Quaker, a solid humanitarian, a peace activist, and international scholarly diplomat, it is fitting to dedicate this volume to him. He received many national and international awards for his achievements, including the National Medal of Science presented to him by President Clinton in 2000.
Many scholars today, including many who contributed to this volume and who work at the geography/technology/policy/environment interfaces trace some of their intellectual roots to Gil.
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Throughout his professional life, including at TVA, Haverford College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Colorado, he influenced generations of students and professionals of all ages and ranks and those with varying professional interests. He was also keenly interested in disseminating research findings to those in the classroom and a wider public. Gilbert White, who, for more than seven decades was an enthusiastic advocate of those conducting research on important global resource and public policy initiatives and the perception of natural and technological hazards at local and international scales. The conference was successful because the fifty presentations by social, engineering, and environmental scientists from nine countries addressed the impacts of various megaprojects and because it demonstrated the need for increased dialogue and collaboration. These included dams, highways, and mining. The purpose of this conference, the title the same as this volume, was to bring together a group of scholars from different disciplines and perspectives who are interested in megaengineering projects who usually do not communicate with each other, even if they study the same topic. This volume is an outgrowth of an international and interdisciplinary conference that I initiated and co-organized at the University of Kentucky in July 2008. White pioneering scientist transdisciplinarian humanitarian peace activist international scholarly diplomat Cover Design: Adam White Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (Gilbert F. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in 3 volumes ISBN 978-9-8 e-ISBN 978-9-4 DOI 10.1007/978-9-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Brunn Department of Geography University of Kentucky 40506-0027 Lexington KY, USA Engineering Earth The Impacts of Megaengineering ProjectsĮditor Prof.
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