Chapter 2
Environmental Sustainability
Publication: Inland Navigation: Environmental Sustainability
Abstract
The earliest navigation projects were designed and constructed with minimal regard for depletion or destruction of natural resources. Projects were often of too modest a scale for large environmental impacts, and science was inadequate to define any but the most catastrophic effects. The US Army Corps of Engineers has established a set of environmental operating principles to ensure that its mission includes totally integrated sustainable environmental practices. These principles must be implemented through Corps’ regulations and manuals in order to become embedded in practice and achieve a standing comparable to economic issues. In addition to laws, regulations, and policies, the principles of sustainable development have now been incorporated into codes of ethics. ASCE, with the American Public Works Association (APWA) and the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), has established the Envision infrastructure sustainability rating system within a new Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure for horizontal infrastructure service systems.
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Inland Navigation: Environmental Sustainability
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Published online: Jan 10, 2019
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