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Environmental effects of information and communications technologies
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Williams, Eric. 2011. “Environmental Effects of Information and Communications Technologies.” Nature 479 (7373): 354–58. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10682
The digital revolution affects the environment on several levels. Most directly, information and communications technology (ICT) has environmental impacts through the manufacturing, operation and disposal of devices and network equipment, but it also provides ways to mitigate energy use, for example through smart buildings and teleworking. At a broader system level, ICTs influence economic growth and bring about technological and societal change. Managing the direct impacts of ICTs is more complex than just producing efficient devices, owing to the energetically expensive manufacturing process, and the increasing proliferation of devices needs to be taken into account.
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