Computing Our Way to Paradise?

Robert Rattle

doi:10.5771/9780759119338

Zusammenfassung

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 ICT network of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain. ICTs have been promoted as the next economic wave with the potential to generate jobs, wealth, and prosperity to surpass that of the industrial era. It is assumed the environmental impacts will be negligible or even beneficial in this shift towards a service economy. Rattle investigates these current and expected trends in ICTs and their potential contribution to sustainable development. His book is an indispensable overview for researchers and instructors in globalization, Internet communication technologies, and environmental anthropology or sociology, as well as a resource for policy makers in environmental protection, sustainable development, sustainable consumption, and the social role of science and technology.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.01.2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7591-0948-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7591-1933-8
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 232
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. Foreword Kein Zugriff
3. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
Chapter 1. ICTs and Globalization: Asking Important Questions Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 14
Chapter 2. The Poverty of Affluence: Sustainable Consumption and Global Environmental Change Kein Zugriff Seiten 15 - 30
Chapter 3. Virtual Morality: Globalization, ICTs, and Sustainable Consumption Kein Zugriff Seiten 31 - 50
Chapter 4. Lulled to Complacency: ICTs and Energy and Materials Consumption Kein Zugriff Seiten 51 - 88
Chapter 5. The Efficiency Paradox: Intensity and Consumption Kein Zugriff Seiten 89 - 100
Chapter 6. From Social Meanings to Global Conformity: ICTs and the Global Commons Kein Zugriff Seiten 101 - 128
Chapter 7. Pathological Tendencies: The Health Link Kein Zugriff Seiten 129 - 148
Chapter 8. Incantations and ICTs: A Global Ideological Pervasion Kein Zugriff Seiten 149 - 182
Chapter 9. Redefining Reality, Transforming Values Kein Zugriff Seiten 183 - 194
Chapter 10. Global Transformations: Serious Considerations and Promising Opportunities Kein Zugriff Seiten 195 - 200
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 201 - 224
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 225 - 230
About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 231 - 232