ICTs have a direct impact on the environment, but ICTs are the major enabling technology for an emission reduction policy. An assessment of the net environmental impact has to take into consideration all effects, both positive and negative. Direct effects, enabling effects and systemic effects of ICTs have to be analyzed and quantified. Systemic impact of ICTs and their environmental impacts are relatively unexplored because unavailable data and changing general framework conditions are complex issues to deal with. The position paper wants to highlight some methodological issues. An Agent Based Model approach to study the systemic effects is suggested. It's important to identify the right scale for the assessment.

A model to assess the net environmental impact of ICT-based services / G. Sissa - In: 1. International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis SIMPDA 2011 / [a cura di] K. Aberer, E. Damiani, T. Dillon. - [s.l] : IFIP, 2011 Jun 28. - ISBN 978-88-903120-2-1. - pp. 207-217 (( Intervento presentato al 1. convegno SIMPDA tenutosi a Campione d'Italia nel 2011.

A model to assess the net environmental impact of ICT-based services

G. Sissa
Primo
2011

Abstract

ICTs have a direct impact on the environment, but ICTs are the major enabling technology for an emission reduction policy. An assessment of the net environmental impact has to take into consideration all effects, both positive and negative. Direct effects, enabling effects and systemic effects of ICTs have to be analyzed and quantified. Systemic impact of ICTs and their environmental impacts are relatively unexplored because unavailable data and changing general framework conditions are complex issues to deal with. The position paper wants to highlight some methodological issues. An Agent Based Model approach to study the systemic effects is suggested. It's important to identify the right scale for the assessment.
environmental and social aspects of ICT ; ICT and sustainability ; environmental information systems ; modeling and simulation methodology in interdisciplinary contexts ; ICT direct impact ; ICT enabling effect ; ICT systemic impact; methodological framework ; collective environmental awareness, ; Agent Based Model ; policy assessment
Settore INF/01 - Informatica
28-giu-2011
http://sesar.dti.unimi.it/SIMPDA2011/SIMPDA2011.pdf
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