Robert Rattle

Computing Our Way to Paradise? (eBook, ePUB)

The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759119338
• Artikelnr.: 39477162

Autorenporträt

Robert Rattle is an independent consultant working for NGOs, business and governmental organizations. For the last two decades, Rattle has conducted research and provided consulting services in the areas of sustainable development and sustainable consumption; ecosystems and human health; ecological economics; impact assessment; information and telecommunications policy; Aboriginal well-being; and globalization.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword: Global Social Narcosis at the Speed of Light: How the
Internet and Communications Technologies are gobbling resources,
eradicating cultures, and destroying the planet, and what can be done to
stop the runaway train Chapter 2 Chapter 1. ICTs and Globalization: Asking
Important Questions Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Poverty of Affluence:
Sustainable Consumption and Global Environmental Change Chapter 4 Chapter
3. Virtual Morality: Globalization, ICTs, and Sustainable Consumption
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Lulled to Complacency: ICTs and Energy and Materials
Consumption Chapter 6 Chapter 5. The Efficiency Paradox: Intensity and
Consumption Chapter 7 Chapter 6. From Social Meanings to Global Conformity:
ICTs and the Global Commons Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Pathological Tendencies:
The Health Link Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Incantations and ICTs: A Global
Ideological Pervasion Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Redefining Reality,
Transforming Values Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Global Transformations: Serious
Considerations and Promising Opportunities