Green IS: Concepts and issues for information systems research

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 173-184

  Dedrick, Jason ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon productivity; Climate change; Environment; Green IT; Greenhouse gas; ICTs; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SUPPLY CHAINS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CARBON PRODUCTIVITIES; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; ICTS; PUBLIC AWARENESS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 77958113523     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02711     Document Type: Article

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