Development Planners, Ethics and Objectives1

Development Ethics

Ethics, engineering, and sustainable development

T he term 'sustainable devel-opment' dates back to the early 1970s when certain business and government leaders began to argue that exponential growth —in human populations and industrial-ization — simply cannot continue indefinitely. One such group of leaders, the Club of Rome, issued a report, Limits to Growth, now recognized as a cornerstone piece of literature for the movement. In a tone so...

Ethics, robotics and medicine development

The humanity was more and more dissatisfied with its skills, especially because they think that our possibility to see, hear or use our sense has limits. In that context, in the XX century were developed a lot of tools for sustaining the medical care. The application of robots in medicine is a new way of developing medicine and could assure a lot of new facilities for humanity. But, of course, ...

Urban and Regional Planners

holders may find jobs as psychological assistants or counselors providing mental health services under the direct supervision of a licensed psychologist. Still others may find jobs involving research and data collection and analysis in universities, government, or private companies. Very few opportunities directly related to psychology will exist for bachelor’s degree holders. Some may find job...

Community Economics: a Simulation Model for Rural Development Planners

Rural areas and small towns are facing new challated to these impacts. With shifting populations, ecolenges as their economies grow and develop. The popnomic changes, and energy development, reliable ulation influx to nonmetropolitan areas has brought new impact models are increasingly useful. Many types of and increasing demands for community services. Premodels and methodologies have been dev...