Sustainability Awareness and Green Information Technologies

✍ Scribed by Tomayess Issa, Theodora Issa, Touma B. Issa, Pedro Isaias

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 552
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses several aspects of environmental sustainability awareness and priorization, explores ways to use resources and processes more responsibly, and describes the strategies, models and tools required to overcome various challenges. Sustainable and green IT are used to minimize the current ICT recycling problems which are harming our planet.

The book discusses the new green information technologies as alternatives to conventional ICT, which have significantly harmed nature, and examines how to make recent technologies such as cloud computing; social networking; smart technology; blockchains, IoT (internet-of-things); and big data sustainable.

Exploring sustainability awareness and importance among individuals and organizations in the developed and developing countries, most of the contributions conclude that sustainability should be considered a duty in order to change mindsets, attitudes and actions so as to preserve our planet. Furthermore, it examines the green information technology strategies and models.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Connected Peer Learning in Global Networks: Students’ Questions About and Solutions for a Sustainable Future (Saara Nissinen, Kaija Saramäki, Henriikka Vartiainen)....Pages 3-19
Life Cycle Approach for Sustainability Competence Assessment (Alexander A. Voronov)....Pages 21-52
Rethinking Human/Nature Ontology in the EFL Classroom as a Focus of Education for Sustainable Development (Jackson Ver Steeg Jr.)....Pages 53-69
Sustainability Awareness in India (Kawaljit Kaur Batth)....Pages 71-99
Sustainability Awareness in Saudi Arabia (Leenah Al Sabban, Tomayess Issa)....Pages 101-131
Sustainable Transport—From Concept to Practice (Laurentiu David, Frantz Daniel Fistung)....Pages 133-168
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Sustainability Awareness in Indian Society (Rajbir Kaur)....Pages 169-197
The Cotton Value Chain: Improving Its Sustainability, Inclusiveness and Value Adding Capabilities: Italy-Egypt Collaborative Sustainability-Based Innovation (Dalia Gallico)....Pages 199-214
Waste Management Industry from Scratch Using Agile and Modern IT Technologies (Viacheslav Chernikov)....Pages 215-235
Front Matter ....Pages 237-237
A Bibliometric Analysis-Based Review on Green IT (S. Zaung Nau, Dora Marinova)....Pages 239-256
A Mauritian Case Study of IT Governance and Green IT (Sarita Hardin-Ramanan)....Pages 257-269
Awareness Factors, Opportunities and Challenges of Iot Application in Australia (Mohammadsajjad Sheikhmiri, Tomayess Issa)....Pages 271-320
Energy Efficient Fault Tolerant Topology Control for IoT Using Variable k-Connectivity (Mitsumasa Ota, Ryuichi Takahashi, Yoshiaki Fukazawa)....Pages 321-333
Green Technology and Sustainability in Australia (Elias Saber)....Pages 335-358
Sustainable Cloud Computing in China (Yuchao Duan, Tomayess Issa, Theodora Issa, Vanessa Chang)....Pages 359-373
Australian Users’ Perspective of Green Blockchain Technology Adoption in Businesses (Aman Mahajan, Tomayess Issa)....Pages 375-408
Front Matter ....Pages 409-409
An Exploration of Attitudes of IT-Personnel in GCC Countries Regarding the Adoption of Green IT Model (Abdulaziz Albahlal)....Pages 411-441
Awareness, Opportunities and Challenges of Green IT: An Australian Perspective (Tomayess Issa, Theodora Issa, Touma Issa)....Pages 443-462
Designing Solutions for the Commons (Davide Fassi, Francesco Vergani)....Pages 463-477
Design for Sustainability—Collaborative Learning and Dissemination at IIT Guwahati, Assam (Ravi Mokashi Punekar, Sharmistha Banerjee, Pankaj Upadhyay)....Pages 479-494
Green IT Strategies: Information Management in Architectural Regenerative Design (Anna Brudnicka, Adam Rybka)....Pages 495-506
Sustainability, Green IT Awareness and Online Shopping: An Australian Perspective (Amelia (Minh Hue Chi) Nguyen)....Pages 507-525
Users’ Attitudes Toward the Adoption of Green Information Technology by Vietnamese Business (Thi Hoang Tham Do)....Pages 527-550
Back Matter ....Pages 551-554

✦ Subjects

Energy; Renewable and Green Energy; Innovation/Technology Management; Computer Communication Networks; Engineering/Technology Education