This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT. It aims to show how stakeholders active in this area need to play their part ensuring that the ICT-sector evolves towards a sector that can lead through “greening by IT” and also shows that it can “green its own IT” as well. This is the first book that integrates two seemingly incompatible approaches to sustainability: efficiency and effectiveness. The book builds on the efficiency initiatives already taken by industry, but it is not a “how-to-do-it manual”. It offers insight in state of the art approaches to green IT and greening by IT. Attention to important stakeholders outside the sector, e.g. policy makers and the field of education, makes this book comprehensive. A more encompassing view on ICT and sustainability is offered to the reader and, as such, managers in higher education, educators, CIO’s, policymakers and regulators are inspired to integrate their efforts and to contribute to a transition of one of the most important and prominent sectors in our global economy.
Edited by:
Jaco H. Appelman, Anwar Osseyran, Martijn Warnier Imprint: CRC Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 521g ISBN:9780415620963 ISBN 10: 0415620961 Pages: 172 Publication Date:16 December 2013 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Energy in the ICT industry; Simulation & Modeling; Sustainability Indicators in ICT; Cradle to Cradle strategies; Industrial Ecology; Energy and Cloud Computing Networks.