Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts
Editors: Kuehr, R., Williams, Eric (Eds.)
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Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new machine every 1-3 years, which adds up to mountains of waste computers. How should societies respond to manage these environmental impacts?
This volume addresses the environmental impacts and management of computers through a set of analyses on issues ranging from environmental assessment, technologies for recycling, consumer behaviour, strategies of computer manufacturing firms, and government policies. One conclusion is that extending the lifespan of computers (e.g. through reselling) is an environmentally and economically effective strategy that deserves more attention from governments, firms and the general public.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Computers and the Environment—An Introduction to Understanding and Managing their Impacts
Pages 1-15
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Information Technology Products and the Environment
Pages 17-39
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Environmental Impacts in the Production of Personal Computers
Pages 41-72
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How the European Union’s Weee Directive will Change the Market for Electronic Equipment—Two Scenarios
Pages 73-86
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IBM’s Environmental Management of Product Aspects
Pages 87-98
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts
- Editors
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- R. Kuehr
- Eric Williams
- Series Title
- Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
- Series Volume
- 14
- Copyright
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-010-0033-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-010-0033-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-1679-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-1680-6
- Series ISSN
- 1389-6970
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 285
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