Computing our way to paradise? : the role of internet and communication technologies in sustainable consumption and globalization /

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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 serv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rattle, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010.
Colección:Globalization and the environment.
Temas:
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.
Epuisement des ressources.
Conservation of natural resources
Computer networks
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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