ICT Innovations for Sustainability

✍ Scribed by Lorenz M. Hilty, Bernard Aebischer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 465
• Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 310
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

ICT Innovations for Sustainability is an investigation of how information and communication technology can contribute to sustainable development. It presents clear definitions of sustainability, suggesting conceptual frameworks for the positive and negative effects of ICT on sustainable development. It reviews methods of assessing the direct and indirect impact of ICT systems on energy and materials demand, and examines the results of such assessments. In addition, it investigates ICT-based approaches to supporting sustainable patterns of production and consumption, analyzing them at various levels of abstraction – from end-user devices, Internet infrastructure, user behavior, and social practices to macro-economic indicators.

Combining approaches from Computer Science, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Economics, and Environmental Sciences, the book presents a new, holistic perspective on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S). It is an indispensable resource for anyone working in the area of ICT for Energy Efficiency, Life Cycle Assessment of ICT, Green IT, Green Information Systems, Environmental Informatics, Energy Informatics, Sustainable HCI, or Computational Sustainability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
ICT for Sustainability: An Emerging Research Field....Pages 3-36
The Energy Efficiency Benefits and the Economic Imperative of ICT-Enabled Systems....Pages 37-48
Actors for Innovation in Green IT....Pages 49-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The Energy Demand of ICT: A Historical Perspective and Current Methodological Challenges....Pages 71-103
Semiconductor Technology and the Energy Efficiency of ICT....Pages 105-111
The Energy Demand of Data Centers....Pages 113-124
Consolidation, Colocation, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing: The Impact of the Changing Structure of Data Centers on Total Electricity Demand....Pages 125-136
The Energy Intensity of the Internet: Home and Access Networks....Pages 137-155
The Energy Intensity of the Internet: Edge and Core Networks....Pages 157-170
Grey Energy and Environmental Impacts of ICT Hardware....Pages 171-189
Sustainable Software Engineering: Process and Quality Models, Life Cycle, and Social Aspects....Pages 191-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
The Material Basis of ICT....Pages 209-221
Recycling of ICT Equipment in Industrialized and Developing Countries....Pages 223-241
The Transition from Desktop Computers to Tablets: A Model for Increasing Resource Efficiency?....Pages 243-256
Addressing the Obsolescence of End-User Devices: Approaches from the Field of Sustainable HCI....Pages 257-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Software Support for Sustainable Supply Chain Configuration and Management....Pages 271-283
An Information System Supporting Cap and Trade in Organizations....Pages 285-299
Computational Modeling of Material Flow Networks....Pages 301-311
Toward the Next Generation of Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems: What is Still Missing?....Pages 313-332
Smart Sustainable Cities: Definition and Challenges....Pages 333-349
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Social Practices, Households, and Design in the Smart Grid....Pages 351-365
Gamification and Sustainable Consumption: Overcoming the Limitations of Persuasive Technologies....Pages 367-385
Supporting Renewable Power Supply Through Distributed Coordination of Energy Resources....Pages 387-404
Dematerialization Through Electronic Media?....Pages 405-421
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
The Interdependency of Energy, Information, and Growth....Pages 425-434
Rebound Effects and ICT: A Review of the Literature....Pages 435-448
Modeling the Effects of ICT on Environmental Sustainability: Revisiting a System Dynamics Model Developed for the European Commission....Pages 449-474

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Sustainable Development; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings)