Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures (eBook, ePUB)

Promises and Pitfalls
Redaktion: Certomà, Chiara; Martellozzo, Federico; Iapaolo, Fabio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability. It will prove valuable for students, researchers, and practitioners across various fields, including Geography, Urban Studies, Sustainability Studies, Environmental Media Studies, Critical AI Studies, Innovation Studies, and the Digital Humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040107614
• Artikelnr.: 72271535

Autorenporträt

Chiara Certomà is an assistant professor of Political-Economic Geography at the University of Turin, Italy. She also serves as a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS) in Graz, at Ghent University, and at the Earth System Governance Research Network at Utrecht University. Her interests include innovative modes of urban governance and planning in response to environmental challenges and the digital turn. Fabio Iapaolo is a research fellow at Oxford Brookes University's Centre for AI, Culture, and Society, UK. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Development from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, and spent a year with the Critical AI Studies (KIM) group at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. His work bridges spatial, political, and computer science perspectives to address topics such as algorithmic inequalities, the materiality of computation, and the politics of automation. Federico Martellozzo is an associate professor of Economic Geography and GIS at the University of Florence, Italy. After earning his PhD in Political and Economic Geography from the University of Trieste in 2010, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University's Land Use and Global Environment (LUGE) lab in Canada. His research examines the adverse effects of land development and resource consumption patterns amid global environmental changes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Digital (Un)sustainabilities: An Introduction Part 1: The Uneven
Consequences of Digital Capitalism in Global Society 2. Fantasies of
Dematerialization: (Un)sustainable Growth and Digital Capitalism 3. Big
Cloud Solastalgia 4. Operative Landscapes of Digitisation, Collateral
Landscapes of Circularity 5. Framing the (Un)sustainability of AI:
Environmental, Social, and Democratic Aspects 6. Problematising Digital
Democracy: The Role of Context in Shaping Digital Participation 7. Digital
Fractures: Sustainability and the Partiality of Climate Policy Simulation
Models Part 2: Twin Transition on the Ground: Local Experimentations with
Digital Sustainability 8. Share an Idea: AI Augmented Urban Narrative 9.
Data (Un)Sustainability: Navigating Utopian Resistance While Tracing
Emancipatory Datafication Strategies 10. Embedding Sustainability in
Software Design and Development: Accessible Digital Tools for Local
Communities 11. European Strategic Autonomy for the Twin Transition:
Ambiguities and Contradictions from a Spatial Perspective 12. Excavating
Digital (Un)sustainabilities