Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability

A Hitman's Approach to Ethics: Temptations and Challenges and Book Overview.- Engineering ethics: definitions, theories and techniques.- Robo-Ethics.- The Ethical Use of Outer Space.- Green Jobs and the Ethics of Energy.- Disparagement of climate change research: A Double Wrong.- Environmental and Social Impacts of Domestic Bathing.- Engineering Ethics Problems in a Developing Country.- Symbols of Success: Telemedicine Projects In Post-Conflict Regions.- Beyond Traditional Ethics when Building ICT for and with Deaf People in Developing Regions.- Ethics, Scientists, Engineers and the Military.- Conclusions and Looking to the Future.

Doctor Hersh is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering (formerly the Department of Electrical Engineering) at the University of Glasgow. Her previous employment was also in higher education, as a researcher. Currently she carries out research on assistive technology, particularly for people with sensory impairments, teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Schools of Engineering and Education and has overall responsibility for the MSc Engineering with Management students.The book is very relevant to deciding in which topics to carry out research and from whom to accept funding. This is an issue that relates to the underlying ethics of an activity rather than the ethics of how it is carried out.Doctor Hersh has been involved for several years with Technical Committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control on Social Impact of Automation and TC9/5 International Stability, Technology and Culture, formerly Supplemental Ways of Improving International Stability (SWIIS) and more loosely with the other Social Systems Technical Committees. She has been vice-chair of the SWISS TC and now TC9/5 for the past six years. TC9/5 has a long term interest in ethics in the context of both international issues and the environment. The proposed book is highly relevant to the work of this TC. The community associated with this TC will also provide a means of promoting the book internationally.She is also actively involved in Scientists for Global Responsibility, a UK organisation which promotes ethical science, design and technology and has a particular concern about the environment and sustainability. The book is again highly relevant to the work of this organisation.

"Hersh ... has published extensively on ethics and enabling technology. As editor of this volume she has compiled writings from authors who focus on the ethics of sustainable development and international development. The book's introduction summarizes theories of engineering ethics and techniques for making ethical decisions. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." (M. Roberts, Choice, Vol. 53 (1), September, 2015)