GREEN CITY INITIATIVES: HUMAN-NATURE INTERACTION

human-nature interaction: a normative analysis

abstractâ cultural norms state human-nature interaction by affecting individual and group values system. ethical norms are the most important ones in which nature and its components become evaluated based on ethical views. there are different ethical normative views toward human-nature interaction. they have been currently categorized into three types of anthropocentric, bio centric and eco cen...

Improving Healthcare through Human City Interaction

The study of information technology has given insufficient focus to a) the structural factors and b) the community perspective. As information systems become increasingly integrated with human systems these wider influences are more important than ever. Human city interaction concepts including their interplay with cyberphysical systems and social computing are appropriated to healthcare. Throu...

Growing Green Roofs, City by City

Building Understanding of Smart City Initiatives

This study presents the first results of an analysis primarily based on semi-structured interviews with government officials and managers who are responsible for smart city initiatives in four North American cities—Philadelphia and Seattle in the United States, Quebec City in Canada, and Mexico City in Mexico. With the reference to the Smart City Initiatives Framework that we suggested in our p...

A Sustainability Model of Green IT Initiatives

Extant Green IT practices and reports reveal that many organizations implementing Green IT face the problem of sustaining Green IT initiatives to gain long term advantage. This study attempts to address the issue by proposing a sustainability model for Green IT initiatives. It evaluates longitudinal changes in Green IT environmental performance of 24 firms featured in the top Green IT rankings ...