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This 10 page paper discusses the opportunities for civil engineers, at all levels, to influence local, national and international political decisions. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
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and construction as well as the maintenance and operation of major structures, including bridges, railways, dockyards, harbours, canals, water and sewage systems, dams, railways, transportation systems, airports, factories and large
buildings or building projects or other large construction projects. However, they often remain a silent, but essential influence (Nijkamp, 1994). The role and discipline of the civil engineer may
therefore seem a long way from the political arena, after all, this the applications of scientific methodologies to non human situations, whereas politics buy it very nature is dealing with
human issues (Haralambos and Holborn, 2003; Simon, 2001). However, the role of the civil engineer is also growing and increasing. Governments, at all levels are becoming more complex and need
to gather increasing levels of professional information and opinions in order to develop policies. If we look at policy areas there are many that impact on, or are influenced by
the very structures that concern civil engineers. There are many areas of policy that are also areas of interest for government, from costal erosion and the provision of water
to the routing of transport and the protection of the environment for harm caused by construction or traffic are only some examples of the overlap (Wenk, 1971). With the
expert knowledge it can be argued that the role of the civil engineer ins changing, especially when it comes to influencing polices at local, national and international level (Rubin et
al, 2004). If we consider how and why engineers may be seen as implicated with not only national but international politics we can look back to the building go
the Panama Canal, a highly political project in other areas there were developments towards modern planning and design issues as well as construction methodologies (Rubin et al, 2004). In creating
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