Computing our way to paradise? : the role of internet and communication technologies in sustainable consumption and globalization /
Rattle, Robert.
Computing our way to paradise? : the role of internet and communication technologies in sustainable consumption and globalization / Robert Rattle. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010. - 1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.) - Globalization and the environment . - Globalization and the environment. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-223) and index.
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. ICTs and Globalization: Asking Important Questions; Chapter 2. The Poverty of Affluence: Sustainable Consumption and Global Environmental Change; Chapter 3. Virtual Morality: Globalization, ICTs, and Sustainable Consumption; Chapter 4. Lulled to Complacency: ICTs and Energy and Materials Consumption; Chapter 5. The Efficiency Paradox: Intensity and Consumption; Chapter 6. From Social Meanings to Global Conformity: ICTs and the Global Commons; Chapter 7. Pathological Tendencies: The Health Link.
Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICTnetwork of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain. ICTs have been promoted as the next economic wave with the potential to generate jobs, wealth, and prosperity to surpass that of the industrial era. It is assumed the environmental impacts will be negligible or even beneficial in t.
English.
9780759119338 0759119333 0759109486 128247961X 9781282479616 9786612479618 6612479612 9780759109483
9786612479618
247961 MIL
2021678965
Atarazanas Valencia
Internet--Social aspects.
Sustainable development.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Computer networks.
Conservation of natural resources.
Computer Communication Networks
Internet
Economic Development
Conservation of Natural Resources
Internet--Aspect social.
Développement durable.
Technologie de l'information--Aspect social.
Réseaux d'ordinateurs.
Conservation des ressources naturelles.
sustainable development.
COMPUTERS--Information Technology.
Internet.
Technologies de l'information et de la communication.
Aspects socio-économiques.
Mondialisation.
Développement durable.
Epuisement des ressources.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects.
Sustainable development.
Telekommunikation
Globalisierung
Nachhaltigkeit
Umweltschutz
Internet--Globalisierung.
Globalisierung--Internet.
Nachhaltige Entwicklung--Internet.
Telekommunikation--Globalisierung.
Globalisierung--Telekommunikation.
Nachhaltige Entwicklung--Telekommunikation.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HM851
303.48/33
Computing our way to paradise? : the role of internet and communication technologies in sustainable consumption and globalization / Robert Rattle. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010. - 1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.) - Globalization and the environment . - Globalization and the environment. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-223) and index.
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. ICTs and Globalization: Asking Important Questions; Chapter 2. The Poverty of Affluence: Sustainable Consumption and Global Environmental Change; Chapter 3. Virtual Morality: Globalization, ICTs, and Sustainable Consumption; Chapter 4. Lulled to Complacency: ICTs and Energy and Materials Consumption; Chapter 5. The Efficiency Paradox: Intensity and Consumption; Chapter 6. From Social Meanings to Global Conformity: ICTs and the Global Commons; Chapter 7. Pathological Tendencies: The Health Link.
Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICTnetwork of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain. ICTs have been promoted as the next economic wave with the potential to generate jobs, wealth, and prosperity to surpass that of the industrial era. It is assumed the environmental impacts will be negligible or even beneficial in t.
English.
9780759119338 0759119333 0759109486 128247961X 9781282479616 9786612479618 6612479612 9780759109483
9786612479618
247961 MIL
2021678965
Atarazanas Valencia
Internet--Social aspects.
Sustainable development.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Computer networks.
Conservation of natural resources.
Computer Communication Networks
Internet
Economic Development
Conservation of Natural Resources
Internet--Aspect social.
Développement durable.
Technologie de l'information--Aspect social.
Réseaux d'ordinateurs.
Conservation des ressources naturelles.
sustainable development.
COMPUTERS--Information Technology.
Internet.
Technologies de l'information et de la communication.
Aspects socio-économiques.
Mondialisation.
Développement durable.
Epuisement des ressources.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects.
Sustainable development.
Telekommunikation
Globalisierung
Nachhaltigkeit
Umweltschutz
Internet--Globalisierung.
Globalisierung--Internet.
Nachhaltige Entwicklung--Internet.
Telekommunikation--Globalisierung.
Globalisierung--Telekommunikation.
Nachhaltige Entwicklung--Telekommunikation.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HM851
303.48/33