Computing our way to paradise? : the role of internet and communication technologies in sustainable consumption and globalization / Robert Rattle.
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TextSeries: Globalization and the environmentPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780759119338
- 0759119333
- 0759109486
- 128247961X
- 9781282479616
- 9786612479618
- 6612479612
- 9780759109483
- 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
- 303.48/33 22
- HM851
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-223) and index.
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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.
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