ICTs & Environment

ICTs for a Better Future
Are ICTs part of the problem or the solution to climate change?

ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective
Dolores Añón Higón, Roya Gholami, FaridShirazi

The empirical results of this study showed that ICT could positively contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions once a threshold level of ICT development has been achieved. Both for the samples of developed and developing countries, as well as for the total sample, we find that the relationship between ICT and CO2 emissions has an inverted U-shape form.


Dolores Añón Higón, Roya Gholami, Farid Shirazi, ICT and environmental sustainability: A global perspective, In Telematics and Informatics, Volume 34, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 85-95, ISSN 0736-5853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.01.001.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585316305846)
Keywords: CO2 emissions; ICT; Developing economies; Developed economies; Environmental Kuznets curve; Panel data

ICT and Green Sustainability Research and Teaching

José Luis Alfaro Navarro,Víctor Raúl López Ruiz, Domingo Nevado Peña

ICT has a dual role: as an enabler of change it can support changes to societal behaviour which can reduce the environmental impact of life, housing, work and leisure activities, but as a significant user of resources, it is a contributor to the adverse effects.

José Luis Alfaro Navarro, Víctor Raúl López Ruiz, Domingo Nevado Peña, The effect of ICT use and capability on knowledge-based cities, In Cities, Volume 60, Part A, 2017, Pages 272-280, ISSN 0264-2751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.09.010.

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275116305753)

Keywords: Information society; ICT indices; Indicators; Intellectual capital; European cities