Editorial

This issue of Engineering Sustainability presents five papers and a discussion paper covering a wide spectrum of topical matters. In attempting to bring more sustainable practices to the civil engineering profession and navigate the ‘swampy lowland’ where engineers seek solutions to the ‘messy, confusing problems (that) defy technical solution’ – these problems usually being ‘of greatest human concern’ – structured approaches to the choice of methodology are invaluable (Jowitt, 2004). The first paper by Holt et al. (2010) provides just this when considering how best to embed sustainability into geotechnical engineering practice. The authors point out that geotechnical...