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Information systems for sustainable development
Title:
Information systems for sustainable development
Author:
Hilty, Lorenz M.
ISBN:
9781591403449
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xvii, 378 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)) : digital files.
Contents:
I. EPE according to ISO 14031 : concept, experience, and revision issues / Eberhard K. Seifert -- 2. Life cycle assessment databases as part of sustainable development strategies : the example of ecoinvent / Roland Hischier, Paul W. Gilgen -- 3. Ecoinvent database : quality control and user interfaces for a Web-based life cycle assessment database / Rolf Frischknecht -- 4. Organisation models and information systems for production-integrated environmental protection (OPUS) / Hans-Dietrich Haasis, Gunnar Jürgens, Torsten Kriwald -- 5. Integration of material flow management tools in workplace environments / Jan Hedemann, Andreas Möller, Peter Müller-Beilschmidt, Dirk Rohdemann, Mario Schmidt, Bernd Schmitt -- 6. Eco-efficient controlling of material flows with flow cost accounting : ERP-based solutions of the ECO rapid project / Stefan Enzler, Helmut Krcmar, Roland Pfennig, Wolfgang Scheide, Markus Strobel -- 7. Advanced middleware for eScience applied to environmental integrated systems / Catherine Houstis, Spyros Lalis, Emmanuel Vavalis, Marios Pitikakis, George V. Vasilakis -- 8. Linking economic optimisation and simulation models to environmental material flow networks for ecoefficiency / Bernd Page, Volker Wohlgemuth -- 9. Virtual networking without a backpack? : resource consumption of information technologies / Justus von Geibler, Michael Kuhndt, Volker Türk -- 10. A social context model for discussion process analysis / Aldo de Moor, Rolf Kleef --

11. E-organization and the sustainable information society / Uwe Schneidewind -- 12. Corporate sustainability reporting : a case for the Internet / Ralf Isenmann -- 13. Web portals : a tool for environmental management / Martin Kreeb, Werner Schulz, Christof Vosseler, Helmut Krcmar, Annette Rudel -- 14. From "industrial symbiosis" to "sustainability networks" / Alfred Posch -- 15. Information systems for co-operative procurement of organic food as a basis for decentralised eco-villages / Stefan Naumann -- 16. ORISS : a Web-based carpooling system / Simon Giesecke, Gerriet Reents -- 17. Citizen-centered environmental information dissemination via multiple information channels / Thomas Rose, Gertraud Peinel, Kostas Karatzas, Per Henrik Johansen, Jon Erik Lindberg -- 18. Accessing public sector environmental data and information : development and demonstration of a national portal / Chris Jarvis, John Kupiec -- 19. The integration of safety, environmental and quality management systems / Werner Strauss, Klaus-Dieter Herrmann, Christoph Roenick -- 20. Support of integrated management systems by the use of in-plant information, management and monitoring systems / Stefan Bräker -- 21. Remote monitoring of nuclear power plants in Baden-Württemberg, Germany / Walter Hürster, Klaus Bieber, Bruno Klahn, Reinhard Micheler, Thomas Wilbois, Roland Obrecht, Fritz Schmidt -- 22. Development of a decision support tool for technological risk management with remote sensing and GIS / Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Poulicos Prastacos, Constantinos Cartalis.
Abstract:
This title provides a survey on approaches to information systems supporting sustainable development in the private or public sector. It also documents and encourages the first steps of environmental information processing towards this more comprehensive goal.
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