Sustainability Assessment
Objective: Investigate the principles of environmental sustainability and the science of climate change. Learn how to estimate the carbon footprint of ICT systems. Look at methods to reduce the footprint both of ICT systems directly and of other systems by using ICT.
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About the book: ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future
Edition Notice
ICT Sustainability is about how to assess, and reduce, the carbon footprint and materials used with computers and telecommunications. These are the notes for an award winning graduate course on strategies for reducing the environmental impact of computers and how to use the Internet to make business more energy efficient.
Copyright © Tom Worthington, 2018
Third edition.
Cover shows Power on-off symbol: line within a circle (IEC 60417-5010).
Latest version of materials available free on-line, under at Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license at http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/
Previous edition, 2017:
ISBN: 9781326967949 (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781326958503 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781326967918 (PDF)
ISBN: 9781326958497 (ePub eBook via Lulu and Apple)
ASIN: B005SOEQZI (Kindle eBook)
Editions of these notes have been used for the courses:
- ICT Sustainability (COMP7310), in the Graduate Studies Select program, Australian National University (first run July 2009), and
- Green ICT Strategies (COMP 635), Athabasca University (Canada). Adapted for North America by Brian Stewart.
- Green Technology Strategies: offered in the Computer Professional Education Program, Australian Computer Society (first run as "Green ICT Strategies" in February 2009),