This paper aims to increase awareness and understanding of the environmental sustainability of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and to highlight the opportunities for timely action by Information Systems (IS) researchers and practitioners in this field. Through examples from a diversity of literature sources this paper defines the problems and the scope of ICT environmental sust...

the consumption of chemical fertilizers and increasing environmental crisis has emphasized to increase interest in sustainable agriculture. the farmers' knowledge related to sustainable agriculture has an important role in their environmental behaviors. this research investigated factors affecting men and women cotton producers’ knowledge. the survey research was conducted using stratified...

This study explains the implementation of an information systems that supports the environmental and sustainability goals of Seventh Generation, seller of nondurable household cleaning products, using the technology-organization-environment(TOE) framework of Tornatzky and Fleischer. This qualitative study case study approach and extensive literature review are used and applied to a single firm ...

In this summary article, some advances of, the potential for, and challenges faced by environmental psychology as a contributor to sustainability science are outlined. In its first 40 years, it has evolved from a discipline primarily—but never solely— concerned with proximate architecture to one that adds concern with larger-scale issues, particularly sustainability. This growth of interest has...

This paper examines the tensions of sustainable development in Seattle, Washington, a commonly recognised urban environmental leader. Drawing on the perspective of sustainability as a conflicted process, this research expected a negative relationship between gentrification and environmental justice when affluent residents outcompete less affluent ones for neighbourhoods with fewer environmental...

Information on sustainability can be used for future development planning. This study presents an approach for assessing urban sustainability. Delphi and fuzzy logic methods and the Kruskal–Wallis test were the discovery and verification techniques used. The city system comprised social, economic, and environmental subsystems. The seven orientors of existence, effectiveness, freedom of action, ...

The purpose of this chapter is to advance a competency framework for sustainability, arguing that sustainability initiatives should move beyond basic awareness to deeper knowledge, including understanding of root causes, and development of political skills. This chapter’s discussion and critique of sustainability competence is grounded in data from more than 500 undergraduate residents’ respons...