| Description |
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Summary |
Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. This book investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can help people tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Describes theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary approach to sustainability; offering both a human-centered framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and case studies of Green IT in action. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-204) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to Green IT -- Environmental horizons -- Human horizons -- The role of technology -- Survey of Green IT systems -- Green IT and education -- Green IT and personal change -- Green IT and collective action -- Ways forward. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Green technology.
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Green technology. |
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Information technology -- Environmental aspects.
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Information technology -- Environmental aspects. |
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Information technology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tomlinson, Bill, 1972- Greening through IT. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262013932 (DLC) 2009033821 (OCoLC)435628701 |
| ISBN |
9780262285087 (ebook) |
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0262285088 (ebook) |
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1282638335 |
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9781282638334 |
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9780262013932 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262013932 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612638336 |
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