Dematerialization through electronic media?

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 310, Issue , 2015, Pages 405-421

  Coroama, Vlad C ^a   Moberg, Åsa ^b,c   Hilty, Lorenz M ^b,d,e  

^a Measure IT Research   (Romania)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Centre for Sustainable Communications CESC   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electronic media; Environmental assessment; Life cycle assessment; Print media; Videoconferencing; Virtual meeting

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

ELECTRONIC MEDIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PRINT MEDIA; VIRTUAL MEETINGS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84927602339     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09228-7_24     Document Type: Article

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