1st Edition
Smart Green World? Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
1. Disruption for a sustainable future?
2. Hidden drivers of digitalization
3. Saving nature with bits and bytes?
4. Social justice through automation and algorithms?
5. Principles for sustainable digitalization
6. Agenda for a connected society / network society
7. Towards soft digitalization
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Steffen Lange is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Germany.
Tilman Santarius is a Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and the Einstein Centre Digital Future, as well as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Germany.
