The relevance of information and communication technologies for environmental sustainability - A prospective simulation study

By Lorenz M. Hilty, P. Arnfalk, Lorenz Erdmann, James Goodman, Martin Lehmann, Patrick A. Wäger. Environmental Modelling & Software, 2006

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Sustainability Design and Software: The Karlskrona Manifesto (2015, background): “Software systems, in particular, play a transformative role, as they enable dematerialization [30], drive consumption patterns”
ICT for Sustainability: An Emerging Research Field (2015, background): “’’ [65] See the chapter by Ahmadi Achachlouei and Hilty [66] in this volume for an update on the model.”
Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization (2012, background): “9 Apart from this and other few recent contributions (Berkhout & Hertin, 2004; Collard et al., 2005; Hilty et al., 2006), how ICT is integrated with EI has been rather ignored.”
Smart Cities and Green Growth: Outsourcing Democratic and Environmental Resilience to the Global Technology Sector (2014, background): “ICT-induced higher energy savings in several areas are nearly compensated by ICT-induced additional energy consumption in other areas” (Hilty et al, 2008, page 1627).”
Economic Complexity and Environmental Performance: Evidence from a World Sample (2019, background): “[60], ICT’s positive and negative impacts on environmental sustainability take the following three forms: primary effects, such as increasing electronic waste; secondary effects, such as improving the energy-efficiency of production; tertiary effects, such as inducing a product-to-service shift in c”
The Effect of Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility on Environmental Performance and Business Competitiveness: The Mediation of Green Information Technology Capital (2016, background): “Erdmann et al. (2004) and Hilty et al. (2006) ﬁnd that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enormous potential to support business-sustainable operation, and produce both positive and negative effects on the environment.”