Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change

Deffuant, Guillaume; Alvarez, Isabelle; Barreteau, Olivier; Vries, Bert de; Edmonds, Bruce; Gilbert, Nigel; Gotts, Nick; Jabot, Franck; Janssen, Sander; Hildén, Mikael; Kolditz, Olaf; Murray-Rust, Dave; Rougé, Charles; Smits, P.C.

doi:10.1140/epjst/e2012-01704-2

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“…Life cycle assessment, LCA, is brought up by several authors in discussions of ICT as an opportunity to enhance sustainability [11], [16], [32]. LCA is a methodology for analysing environmental impact over a product's or service's whole life cycle.…”

Section: B Environmental Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the same line of argument, Deffluant et al [11] discuss that research approaches to address sustainable and equitable food systems need to address the complexity and the relationships between the components of the system. I.e.…”

Section: A Research Needs In Ict4smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I.e. both biophysical resources, resource-use demands of food processors and retailers, and consumer behaviour [11]. This does not have to imply however, that one comprehensive ICT tool should be developed in order to cover all aspects, but rather that ICT opportunities should be tried out and assessed with regard to all the links in the food chain.…”

Section: A Research Needs In Ict4smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These are summarized by Sui and Rejeski [10] as dematerialization, decarbonisation, and demobilization. But ICT potentials for improved well-being [11], behavioural change [12] and for providing tools for sustainability practice [13] have also been put forward. The potential of ICT for increasing sustainability of food systems is now explored by a growing number of researchers and in practical projects.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable food systems with ICT

Svenfelt

Zapico

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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Abstract-The food system is burdened by many and severe negative environmental and social impacts. Two of the reasons for the impacts are the increasing scale and globalisation of the food system. ICT has been put forward as a means to enhance sustainability in society, yet the potential for food systems is underexplored. In this paper we review ICT solutions for improved sustainability of food systems, which are used in practice or are discussed as potential solutions. The aim is to identify ICT solutions that can potentially enhance sustainability in the food system. We review mostly scientific literature. The ICT solutions are categorized according to four main purposes of the approach, to 1) efficiency through monitoring and assessment of environmental impact, 2) enhance transparency and traceability in the food system, 3) creating network between actors in the food chains, 4) influence and change food practices. We conclude that there is no coherent research field covering ICT in food systems. The papers reviewed are scattered over several disciplines and scientific journals. We also conclude that there is a predominance of research on monitoring of food production and transparency and traceability in the food chain. More research is needed that take on holistic approaches and include several parts of the food system. Furthermore, we would also like to see more research on what sustainable food systems could be like and how ICT could support and perhaps sometimes hinder such developments.

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Section: B Environmental Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Research Needs In Ict4smentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Research Needs In Ict4smentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Sustainable food systems with ICT

Svenfelt

Zapico

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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“…Strong synergies with other parts of the overall FuturICT effort (http://www.futurict.ethz.ch) are expected. Specifically, the Innovation Accelerator is envisioned to interconnect the Exloratories of Economy [64], Technology [65,66], Society [67], and Environment [68].…”

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Theoretical and technological building blocks for an innovation accelerator

Harmelen¹,

Kampis

Börner

et al. 2012

Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top.

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Abstract. Modern science is a main driver of technological innovation. The efficiency of the scientific system is of key importance to ensure the competitiveness of a nation or region. However, the scientific system that we use today was devised centuries ago and is inadequate for our current ICT-based society: the peer review system encourages conservatism, journal publications are monolithic and slow, data is often not a e-mail: frank.van.harmelen@gmail.com 184The European Physical Journal Special Topics available to other scientists, and the independent validation of results is limited. The resulting scientific process is hence slow and sloppy. Building on the Innovation Accelerator paper by Helbing and Balietti [1], this paper takes the initial global vision and reviews the theoretical and technological building blocks that can be used for implementing an innovation (in first place: science) accelerator platform driven by re-imagining the science system. The envisioned platform would rest on four pillars: (i) Redesign the incentive scheme to reduce behavior such as conservatism, herding and hyping; (ii) Advance scientific publications by breaking up the monolithic paper unit and introducing other building blocks such as data, tools, experiment workflows, resources; (iii) Use machine readable semantics for publications, debate structures, provenance etc. in order to include the computer as a partner in the scientific process, and (iv) Build an online platform for collaboration, including a network of trust and reputation among the different types of stakeholders in the scientific system: scientists, educators, funding agencies, policy makers, students and industrial innovators among others. Any such improvements to the scientific system must support the entire scientific process (unlike current tools that chop up the scientific process into disconnected pieces), must facilitate and encourage collaboration and interdisciplinarity (again unlike current tools), must facilitate the inclusion of intelligent computing in the scientific process, must facilitate not only the core scientific process, but also accommodate other stakeholders such science policy makers, industrial innovators, and the general public. We first describe the current state of the scientific system together with up to a dozen new key initiatives, including an analysis of the role of science as an innovation accelerator. Our brief survey will show that there exist many separate ideas and concepts and diverse stand-alone demonstrator systems for different components of the ecosystem with many parts are still unexplored, and overall integration lacking. By analyzing a matrix of stakeholders vs. functionalities, we identify the required innovations. We (non-exhaustively) discuss a few of them: Publications that are meaningful to machines, innovative reviewing processes, data publication, workflow archiving and reuse, alternative impact metrics, tools for the detection of trends, community formation and emergence, as well as modular publications, c...

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Man on Earth – The Challenge of Discovering Viable Ecological Survival Strategies

Edmonds

2015

Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XV

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Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change

Cited by 10 publications

References 90 publications

Sustainable food systems with ICT

Sustainable food systems with ICT

Theoretical and technological building blocks for an innovation accelerator

Man on Earth – The Challenge of Discovering Viable Ecological Survival Strategies

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