Format:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781874719472
,
9781909493261
Content:
This work explores, documents and raises awareness of sustainability concerns arising from the emerging global information economy. The information economy is defined in the broadest sense possible, including software, hardware, telecommunication and advanced communication technologies
Note:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction. Atom to bits: e-sustainability in the global economy -- PART 1: Sustainability challenges and implications of a global information economy -- 1. Sustainable business strategies in the Internet economy -- 2. E-logistics and the natural environment -- 3. Greening the digitised supply net -- 4. Dot.com ethics: e-business and sustainability -- 5. Practising corporate citizenship in a global information economy -- 6. The Internet and sustainability reporting: improving communication with stakeholders -- PART 2: E-business strategies for a sustainable world -- 7. Is e-commerce sustainable? Lessons from Webvan -- 8. Information technology, sustainable development and developing nations -- 9. The environmental impact of the new economy: Deutsche Telekom, telecommunications services and the sustainable future -- 10. Environmental impacts of telecommunications services: two life-cycle analysis studies -- 11. Exploring the global-local axis: telecommunications and environmental sustainability in Japan -- 12. Product-oriented environmental management: the case of Xerox Europe -- PART 3: Old-economy concerns in a new-economy world -- 13. Information and communications technologies: boon or bane to sustainable development? -- 14. Information and communications technologies and business travel: environmental possibilities, problems and implications -- 15. How fabulous fablessness? Environmental challenges of economic restructuring in the semiconductor industry -- 16. Micropower: electrifying the digital economy -- 17. Extended producer responsibility and the European electronics industry -- 18. Sustainable trade in electronics: the case of the Indian components sector -- Bibliography -- List of abbreviations -- Author biographies -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Park, Jacob The Ecology of the New Economy Sheffield : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9781874719472
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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