Sustainable Information Systems and Green Metrics

Harnessing Green It: Principles and Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 167-198

  Curry, Edward ^a   Donnellan, Brian ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Data Centre Energy Efficiency; Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting; Life Cycle Assessment; Multi level Green Metrics; Regional Sustainability Plan; Sustainability Capability Maturity; Sustainable Information Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876692640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118305393.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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