ICT for Sustainability: An Emerging Research Field

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  • Lorenz M. Hilty
  • Bernard Aebischer
چکیده

This introductory chapter provides definitions of sustainability, sustainable development, decoupling, and related terms; gives an overview of existing interdisciplinary research fields related to ICT for Sustainability, including Environmental Informatics, Computational Sustainability, Sustainable HCI, and Green ICT; introduces a conceptual framework to structure the effects of ICT on sustainability; and provides an overview of this book.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015