Digital sustainability: basic conditions for sustainable digital artifacts and their ecosystems

Sustainability Science

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 247-262

  Stuermer, Matthias ^a   Abu Tayeh, Gabriel ^a   Myrach, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Digital sustainability; Knowledge commons; Linked Open Data; Linux; Sustainable development; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000983868     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0412-2     Document Type: Article

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