Towards a political ecology of the digital economy: Socio-environmental implications of two competing value models

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 18, Issue , 2016, Pages 82-100

  Kostakis, Vasilis ^a,c   Roos, Andreas ^b,c   Bauwens, Michel ^d  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c P2P Foundation   (Greece)

^d P2P Foundation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital economy; Environmental sustainability; ICT; Peer to peer; Political ecology; Techno economic paradigm shifts

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; PARADIGM SHIFT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VALUATION;

EID: 84959535688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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