Information systems solutions for environmental sustainability: How can we do more?

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 8SpecialIssue, 2016, Pages 521-536

  Gholami, Roya ^a   Watson, Richard T ^b   Molla, Alemayehu ^c   Hasan, Helen ^d   Bjørn Andersen, Niels ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate Change; Design Science; Green IS; Internet of Things; Solutions

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; INFORMATION USE; INTERNET OF THINGS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DESIGN SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRESENTING INFORMATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE; SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY; SYSTEM SOLUTION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84989182938     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00435     Document Type: Article

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