Rebound effects and ict: A review of the literature

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 310, Issue , 2015, Pages 435-448

  Gossart, Cédric ^a  

^a ENS Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 PSL USPC)   (France)

Author keywords

ICT; Rebound Effects; Resource Efficiency

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL REVIEW; ICT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; REBOUND EFFECT; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84927615379     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09228-7_26     Document Type: Article

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