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标题：Grand challenges for engineering
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作者：Professor Paul Crutzen (Nobel Prize for Chemistry) ; Professor M. Bruce,Beck ; Dr. Michael Thompson 等
期刊名称：Options Magazine
出版年度：2007
期号：2007
页码：8-8
出版社：International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
摘要：The world is becoming ever more populous and urbanized. Cities are inherently unmitigated environmental “evils”; with no extenuating circumstances; like bulls in china shops. Man’s burden on the environment—woe, that it is—will continue to be piled upon woe. So runs the popular mind-set. Yet things do not have to be this way, no matter how hard it may be today to conceive of cities as forces for good in the environment. Far from infrastructures having to take on the burden of compensating for the ills of cities, the two should “act” deliberately to contribute positively to enhancement of the environment around them. That is our grand challenge for engineering; and this is how we might begin to think of responding to the challenge.