UID:
almahu_9949386261502882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000061505
,
1000061507
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9781003030881
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1003030882
,
9781000061567
,
1000061566
,
9781000061628
,
1000061620
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in sustainability
Content:
In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. At the same time, the current economic model and consumerist lifestyle needs to be radically transformed if society is to overcome the challenges humanity is facing on a finite planet. Can the much-discussed disruption potential of digitalization be harnessed for this purpose? Smart Green World? provides guiding principles for a sustainable digital society and develops numerous hands-on proposals for how digitalization can be shaped to become a driving force for social transformation. For instance, the authors explain why more digitalization is needed to realize the transition towards 100% renewable energy and show how this can be achieved without sacrificing privacy. Theyanalyze howthe information revolution can transform consumption patterns, mobility habits and industry structures - instead of fostering the consumption of unneeded stuff due to personalized commercials and the acceleration of life. The authors reveal how Artificial Intelligence and the Industrial Internet of Things pose novel environmental challenges and contribute to a polarization of income; but they also demonstrate how the internet can be restored to its status as a commons, with users taking priority and society at large reaping the benefits of technological change in a most democratic way. Providing a comprehensive and practical assessment of both social and environmental opportunities and challenges of digitalization, Smart Green World? Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability will be of great interest to all those studying the complex interrelationship of the twenty-first-century megatrends of digitalization and decarbonization.
Note:
"Earthscan from Routledge."
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Disruption for a sustainable future -- Hidden drivers of digitalization -- Saving nature with bits and bytes -- Social justice through automation and algorithms -- Principles for sustainable digitalization -- Agenda for a network society -- Towards soft digitization.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781000061628
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367467579
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367467577
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003030881
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003030881
