Sustainability Empowerment and Lifestyles: ICTs for New Food Behavioral Models
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چکیده
Recognizing the important role that modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICts), and in particular the Internet, can play in determining the so-called “Sustainability Empowerment” (“the ability to make the Right to Sustainability a constitutive principle of a new global society where well-being and its sustainability, in time and space, constitute its fundamental strategic goal”), the present paper highlights a web project that takes for example the short supply chain model as a reference to a sustainable food lifestyle. This with the purpose of highlighting the importance to guide the visitors to new patterns of food behavior most functional to the maintenance in time and space of a new well-being paradigm.
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