[Itenv] New book on Information Technology and Sustainability

[Lorenz Hilty]

Dear colleague

You may be interested in my new monograph:
Lorenz M. Hilty: Information Technology and Sustainability.
BOD 2008, ISBN: 9783837019704
Table of contents see below.

The book is now listed at amazon.DE (unfortunately NOT at amazon.COM):
http://www.amazon.de/dp/3837019705/

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

With best regards
Lorenz
lorenz.hilty at empa.ch 


Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1:
Sustainability in the Information Society – an Introduction     13
1.1 A Basic Classification of the Environmental Effects of
ICT 16
1.2 The Challenge of Dynamics   16
CHAPTER 2:
Environmental Informatics and the Vision of a Sustainable Information
Society 21
2.1 Background  21
2.2 Environmental Information Processing    25
2.3 Information Society Technologies    33
2.4 The Rebound Effect  39
2.5 From Eco-Efficiency to New Lifestyles   41
2.6 Conclusion and Outlook  43
CHAPTER 3:
The Information Society and the Dematerialization Issue 53
3.1 Dematerialization   55
3.2 A Historical Perspective    58
3.3 The Future Is Open  60
CHAPTER 4:
ICT, Time Efficiency, and the Rebound Effect    65
4.1 Information, Communication, and Efficiency  66
4.2 Efficiency and Productivity 69
4.3 Efficiency vs. Sufficiency  71
4.4 The Rebound Effect  72
4.5 The Notion of ‘Utility’ 76
4.6 The Concept of Household Production Function    77
4.7 Observations on the Rebound Effect  80
4.8 Rebound Effects of Progress in ICT at the Individual
Level   83
4.9 Rebound Effects of Progress in ICT at the Organizational
Level   91
4.10    The Miniaturization Paradox 93
4.11    Conclusion  96
CHAPTER 5:
Technological Complexity and the Precautionary Principle    99
5.1 The Precautionary Principle (PP)    100
5.2 Applying the PP to the Risks of Unmastered Technological
Complexity  105
5.3     Conclusion  115
CHAPTER 6:
ICT and Life-Cycle Assessment   119
6.1 The Life-Cycle of ICT Hardware  121
6.2     Effects of ICT Applications on the Life Cycle of Products and
Services    133
6.3 Tools and Databases for Life-Cycle Assessment   136
6.4 Conclusion  140
CHAPTER 7:
A Conceptual Framework for ICT Effects on Sustainability    145
7.1 First-order Effects (Primary Effects)   147
7.2 Second-order Effects (Secondary Effects)    150
7.3 Third-order Effects (Tertiary Effects)  153
CHAPTER 8:
Steps towards a Sustainable Information Society 159
8.1 What Users Can Do   160
8.2 What Hardware Developers Can Do 168
8.3 What Software Developers Can Do 170
8.4 What Politicians Can Do 172
8.5 Final Notes 176
Index   178

Prof. Dr. Lorenz M. Hilty
Technology and Society Lab
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research
Lerchenfeldstr. 5
CH-9014 St.Gallen
Switzerland
Phone +41-71-274 75 00
Fax +41-71-274 78 62
http://www.empa.ch/tsl 


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