Green information systems and technologies - This generation and beyond: Introduction to the special issue

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 695-704

  Sarkis, Joseph ^a   Koo, Chulmo ^b   Watson, Richard T ^c  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREEN IS; GREEN SOLUTION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84888066386     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-013-9454-5     Document Type: Review

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