Robert Rattle

Computing Our Way to Paradise?

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected network of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain.

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Produktdetails

• Globalization and the Environment
• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780759109483
• ISBN-10: 0759109486
• Artikelnr.: 26953773

Autorenporträt

By Robert Rattle

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