Sustainability and ICT - An overview of the field
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Sustainable development requires the decoupling of economic growth from environmental impacts and from the use of natural resources. This article gives an overview of existing approaches to using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the service of sustainability: Environmental Informatics, Green ICT, and Sustainable Human-computer Interaction (HCI). These approaches are then discussed in the context of the Jevons paradox, an economic argument implying that technological efficiency alone will not produce sustainability. This consideration leads to the conclusion that a combination of efficiency and sufficiency strategies is the most effective way to stimulate innovations which will unleash ICT’s potential to support sustainability.
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It would be surprising if rebound effects in ICT-and Jevons Paradox in particular-were to end in the future without a foundational change.
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- Authors
- Hilty, L., Lohmann, W., & Huang, E. M.
- Venue
- Tipolito Subalpina
- Publisher
- Tipolito Subalpina
- Published
- 2011
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 104
- Pages
- 13-28
- OpenAlex
- W2741949577
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 6.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.zora.uzh.ch
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Green IT and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Sustainable Design and Development
- Keywords
- sustainability, information and communication technologies, environmental informatics, green ICT, Jevons paradox, sufficiency, technological efficiency
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