Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing Their Impacts
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Williams, Eric (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-1679-0
- EAN: 9781402016790
- Produktnummer: 1707919
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.1 cm 617 g
- Auflage: 2003
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 617
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