Environmental Online Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Raising Environmental Awareness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Public Access to Environmental Information

      1. Environmental Information Systems and the Concept of Environmental Informatics

         • Kostas Karatzas, Asteris Masouras, Athina Kaprara, Anastasios Bassoukos, Ioannis Papaioannou, Theodora Slini et al.

         Pages 3-9

      2. Mobile Access to Environmental Information

         • Jörg Westbomke, Michael Haase, Renate Ebel, Dieter Lehne

         Pages 11-20

      3. EnviWeb and Environmental Web Services: Case Study of an Environmental Web Portal

         • Jiri Hrebicek, Miroslav Kubasek

         Pages 21-24

      4. Web Coverage of Renewable Energy

         • Arno Scharl

         Pages 25-34

   3. Online Advocacy

      1. Online Communication for Environmental Fundraising

         • Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan

         Pages 35-44

      2. How a Small Environmental Group Uses the Web to Inform and Promote Action: A Content Analysis

         • Heather Sehmel

         Pages 45-52

      3. Usability Evaluation of an Environmental Web Site and its Support of the Organization’s Mission and Goals

         • Ingrid Pohl

         Pages 53-62

   4. Environmental Education

      1. EFS Global Media Network: Exploring the Boundaries of Sustainable Education

         • George R. Smith

         Pages 63-74

      2. An Online Community of Learners in Rural, Regional, and Remote Australia

         • Fiona M. Haslam McKenzie

         Pages 75-78

      3. Self-assessment of Consumptive Behavior Based on Material Intensity

         • Andreas Niederl, Roman Mesicek

         Pages 79-87

3. Environmental Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Data Sharing and Distributed Internet Computing

      1. Biodiversity and the Internet: Building and Using the Virtual World Museum

         • Edward O. Wiley, A. Townsend Peterson

         Pages 91-99

      2. Climateprediction.net: A Global Community for Research in Climate Physics

         • David A. Stainforth, Myles R. Allen, David Frame, Jamie Kettleborough, Carl Christensen, Tolu Aina et al.

         Pages 101-112

      3. Web Portal and Markup Language for Collaborative Environmental Research

         • Xiaorong Xiang, Gregory Madey, Yingping Huang, Steve Cabaniss

         Pages 113-126

   3. Geographically Referenced Data

      1. Web-based Exploration of Environmental Data and Corresponding Metadata, in Particular Lineage Information

         • Andri Baltensweiler, Martin Brändli

         Pages 127-132

      2. Sharing Environmental Maps on the Web: The Austrian EnviroMap System

         • Rudolf Orthofer, Wolfgang Loibl

         Pages 133-144

4. Corporate Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Sustainability and Social Responsibility

      1. System Architecture and Maintenance of the Ecoradar Web Portal

         • Rudolph Braun, Werner F. Schulz, Helmut Krcmar, Markus Russ, Sebastian Maute, Benjamin Hermann et al.

         Pages 147-160

This book brings together high quality articles exploring the design, implementation, management, funding, promotion and evaluation of networked information systems that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. Case studies of deployed and planned information systems complement theoretical work on the methodological, technological and organizational foundations of environmental online communication.

• Community
• Internet
• Usability
• Web
• Wireless
• biodiversity
• calculus
• communication
• ecosystems
• environmental science
• information system
• networks
• online
• organization
• sustainable development

• Business School, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

  Arno Scharl

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