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Information Systems for Sustainable Development

Information Systems for Sustainable Development

Lorenz M. Hilty, Eberhard K. Seifert, Rene Treibert

Copyright: © 2005 |Pages: 398

ISBN13: 9781591403425|ISBN10: 1591403421|EISBN13: 9781591403449

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-342-5

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Information Systems for Sustainable Development provides a survey on approaches to information systems supporting sustainable development in the private or public sector. It also documents and encourages the first steps of environmental information processing towards this more comprehensive goal.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapters

Environmental Performance and Eco-Efficiency

Chapter 1

EPE According to ISO 14031: Concept, Experience, and Revision Issues (pages 1-14)

Eberhard K. Seifert

ISO 14031 on “Environmental Performance Evaluation” (EPE) was released in late 1999 and published in Germany by DIN in early 2000 also as DIN EN ISO 14031 in two languages (German and English) as the last standard of the original...

Chapter 2

Life Cycle Assessment Databases as Part of Sustainable Development Strategies: The Example of Ecoinvent (pages 15-24)

Roland Hischier, Paul W. Gilgen

This article describes the importance of standardized, comprehensive and up-to-date life cycle inventory (LCI) databases for implementing policies that point towards sustainable development (SD). Taking present-day Swiss politics as...

Chapter 3

Ecoinvent Database: Quality Control and User Interfaces for a Web-Based Life Cycle Assessment Database (pages 25-38)

Rolf Frischknecht

In late 2000 the project ecoinvent 2000 was officially launched. Several Swiss Federal Offices and research institutes of the ETH domain agreed on a joint effort to harmonise and update life cycle inventory (LCI) data for its use in...

Chapter 4

Organisations Models and Information Systems for Production-Integrated Environmental Protection (OPUS) (pages 39-46)

Hans-Dietrich Haasis, Gunnar Jurgens, Torsten Kriwald

Environmental protection in companies gains higher importance as the demand for information on environmental performance is rewarded by society, market and policy makers. Additive environmental technologies encounter increasing...

Chapter 5

Integration of Material Flow Management Tools in Workplace Environments (pages 47-61)

Jan Hedemann, Andreas Moller, Peter Muller-Beilschmidt, Dirk Rohdemann, Mario Schmidt, Bernd Schmitt

This chapter describes how information technology (IT) support for industrial ecology can be integrated in a workplace environment, providing a homogeneous user interface and role-based access to information. The term “industrial...

Chapter 6

Eco-Efficient Controlling of Material Flows with Flow Cost Accounting: ERP-Based Solutions of the ECO Rapid Project (pages 62-75)

Stefan Enzler, Helmut Krcmar, Roland Pfenning, Wolfgang Scheide, Markus Strobel

The point of departure for ECO Rapid is the assumption that environmental management instruments have been perfected, but they will only be able to be used in practice to any extent worth mentioning if costs and benefits are in a...

Chapter 7

Advanced Middleware for eScience Applied to Environmental Integrated Systems (pages 76-93)

Catherine Houstis, Spyros Lalis, Emmanuel Vavalis, Marios Pitikakis, George V. Vasilakis

An advanced eScience middleware system is designed and implemented (the middleware has been developed within the ARION project, IST-2000-25289, funded by EU 5th Framework Programme) to support search and retrieval of scientific...

Chapter 8

Linking Economic Optimisation and Simulation Models to Environmental Material Flow Networks for Ecoefficiency (pages 94-108)

Bernd Page, Volker Wohlgemuth

This chapter outlines Material Flow Networks as a special modelling approach in the context of ecobalancing, that is, for modelling the environmental impacts of economic activities. This approach focuses on understanding the...

Chapter 9

Virtual Networking without a Backpack? Resource Consumption of Information Technologies (pages 109-127)

Justus von Geibler, Michael Kuhndt, Volker Turk

This chapter concentrates on the environmental impacts of the increasing use of the Internet. It highlights that the Internet and Internet applications are far from being purely virtual, but are clearly linked to the use of natural...

Supporting Change Toward Sustainability

Chapter 10

A Social Context Model for Discussion Process Analysis (pages 128-145)

Aldo de Moor, Rolf Kleef

Computer-mediated discussion processes play an important role in achieving sustainable development. However, when part of authoring complex documents, these discussions have so far not been very effective. One reason is that in the...

Chapter 11

E-Organization and the Sustainable Information Society (pages 146-163)

Uwe Schneidewing

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have direct and indirect effects on sustainability. The direct effects are linked to the material and energy flows caused by the application of ICT. Indirect effects are caused by...

Chapter 12

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: A Case for the Internet (pages 164-212)

Ralf Isenmann

Corporate environmental reporting using the Internet – especially the WWW – is a rapidly emerging and increasingly popular method. Today, online environmental reporting has become part of business practices and daily affairs for a...

Chapter 13

Web Portals: A Tool for Environmental Management (pages 213-228)

Martin Kreeb, Werner Schulz, Christof Vosseler, Helmut Krcmar, Annette Rudel

Ecoradar (www.ecoradar.org / www.oekoradar.de) is the name of an innovative Internet portal that sets out to use the simplest and most persuasive means to motivate others to implement sustainable management in those enterprises that...

Chapter 14

From "Industrial Symbiosis" to "Sustainability Networks" (pages 229-242)

Alfred Posch

Industrial recycling networks are very effective in minimizing impact on the environment by building up closed loops of material and energy use within the industrial system. These interorganizational recycling activities among...

Chapter 15

Information Systems for Co-Operative Procurement of Organic Food as a Basis for Decentralised Eco-Villages (pages 243-259)

Stefan Naumann

In this chapter we describe the “eFood-Coop” software system that supports an eco-community in ordering, purchasing and delivering organic products such as food, clean construction material and so forth. In addition, offering...

Chapter 16

ORISS: A Web-Based Carpooling System (pages 260-276)

Simon Giesecke, Gerriet Reents

In this chapter, we present the Web-based carpooling system ORISS, which was initially developed by a student project group at University of Oldenburg. It is currently being deployed at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg with...

Chapter 17

Citizen-Centered Environmental Information Dissemination via Multiple Information Channels (pages 277-290)

Thomas Rose, Gertraud Peinel, Kostas Karatzas, Per Henrik Johansen, Jon Erik Lindberg

Citizens call for timely and high-quality environmental information for reasons of awareness and personal well-being. Only an informed citizen will be in the position to participate in urban environment decision making and planning....

Chapter 18

Accessing Public Sector Environmental Data and Information: Development and Demonstration of a National Portal (pages 291-303)

Chris Jarvis, John Kupiec

This chapter highlights the importance that the Environment Agency places on the provision of information and the key part it plays in achieving environmental goals, an importance that is recognised in a range of national, European...

Risk Management

Chapter 19

The Integration of Safety, Environmental and Quality Management Systems (pages 304-316)

Werner Strauss, Klaus-Dieter Herrmann, Christoph Roenick

This chapter will show how the demands on safety, environmental and quality management systems and their implementation into IT solutions have changed over the years and how such systems may appear in the future. Tangible business...

Chapter 20

Support of Integrated Management Systems by the Use of In-Plant Information, Management and Monitoring Systems (pages 317-332)

Stefan Braker

For many organisations the present status of integration of management systems raises the question where the development goes and whether there are not further new approaches to be pursued in the next years. Due to different...

Chapter 21

Remote Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plants in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany (pages 333-341)

Walter Hurster, Klaus Bieber, Bruno Klahn, Reinhard Micheler, Thomas Wilbois, Roland Obrecht, Fritz Schmidt

The technical implementation of a new remote monitoring system for nuclear power plants is described in this chapter as an example of a modern environmental monitoring and surveillance system. The concept, the architectural design...

Chapter 22

Development of a Decision Support Tool for Technological Risk Management with Remote Sensing and GIS (pages 342-353)

Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Poulicos Prastacos, Constantinos Cartalis

In this study, a GIS based decision support tool is proposed for the support of technological risk management by integrating moderate and high spatial resolution satellite imagery with in-situ vector data. The Advanced Very High...

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