Green ICT & Energy : From Smart to Wise Strategies

To enable the first steps of the new strategic orientation a number of questions have been formulated to which answers are provided in this book:

Can we use adopted efficiency strategies in the ICT-sector as a lever to make a transition to effective strategies?

What new supporting technologies and sustainability approaches are availabe and how could they support a move toward such a strategy?;

How do we know that we are really moving toward a sustainable future? What do we need to measure and report when adopting such a strategy?

Preface

Part I : Introduction : Energy in The ICT Industry : a Lever for Change?
Chapter 1 : Strategic View on Changing an Industry/Sector
Chapter 2 : Mixing Methods to Come to Effective Strategies

Part II : Simulation & Modeling : Exploring and Rehearsing Futures
Chapter 3 : Simulating The Evolution of Greening Policies
Chapter 4 : Gaming to Understand Complex Energy Infrastructures
Chapter 5 : Support for Transitions Through Gaming and Modeling
Chapter 6 : Simulation Layers for Agent-Based Modelling to Explore Different Energy Futures

Part III : Sustainability Indicators in ICT : From One to Three?
Chapter 7 : How Do You Know You're Making Progress? Sustainability Indicators
Chapter 8 : How Do You Know That People Will Want to Work with New (Sustainable (Ict-)) Technologies : Applying VFM

Part IV : Seeing The Future and Making The Future : Examples and Approaches

A : Approaches
Chapter 9 : Industrial Ecology : Engineering Sustainable ICT-Systems
Chapter 10 : Cradle to Cradle Combined with Transition Management as an Inspiration and Method to Become Very Effective
Chapter 11 : Life’s Principles; Tool and Inspiration for Benign Innovations

B : Examples
Chapter 12 : Robust, Resilient and Sustainable Energy Production and Delivery for Cloud Computing Networks
Chapter 13 : Development of an Energy Self-Sufficient Data-Center
Chapter 14 : Micro-Teaching : Learning and Motivation Combined Sub-Title : How to Sustain a Change Management Strategy Aimed a Sustainability

Part V : Conclusions and Further Challenges
Chapter 15 : Exploring Synergies Between Efficiency and Effectiveness : Are We Wise Enough Already?

Index