Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda

Kunkel, Stefanie; Tyfield, David

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102295

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“…In this context, the digital system would exert indirect control over human societies (138) as well as increased control of the Earth system through the expansion of resource extraction enabled by highly automated (digital) technologies (139). The rebound and scale effects of digitalization continue to dominate and increase in scale and magnitude (140). The likely environmental outcomes of such a scenario are rapid resource exhaustion, high threats to biodiversity, and increases The icons and table depict positive (+) and negative (−) implications for planetary stability, social equity, and political agency in each pathway.…”

Section: Planetary Destabilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitalization and the Anthropocene

Creutzig

Acemoğlu

Bai

et al. 2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service economy. However, digitalization has historically increased environmental impacts at local and planetary scales, affecting labor markets, resource use, governance, and power relationships. Here we study the past, present, and future of digitalization through the lens of three interdependent elements of the Anthropocene: ( a) planetary boundaries and stability, ( b) equity within and between countries, and ( c) human agency and governance, mediated via ( i) increasing resource efficiency, ( ii) accelerating consumption and scale effects, ( iii) expanding political and economic control, and ( iv) deteriorating social cohesion. While direct environmental impacts matter, the indirect and systemic effects of digitalization are more profoundly reshaping the relationship between humans, technosphere and planet. We develop three scenarios: planetary instability, green but inhumane, and deliberate for the good. We conclude with identifying leverage points that shift human–digital–Earth interactions toward sustainability. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 47 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Planetary Destabilizationmentioning

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Digitalization and the Anthropocene

Creutzig

Acemoğlu

Bai

et al. 2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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“…Conway et al ( 2020) highlighted SDG 8 as important for building and transport sectors [99]. The author Kunkel et al (2021) focused only on SDG 9's revision in terms of digitalisation [100]. The usage of digital technologies is also very crucial in the present COVID-19 pandemic era as a technique of limiting employees' physical contact between persons in order to limit the virus's transmission [101,102].…”

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Digitalisation as the Indicator of the Evidence of Sustainability in the European Union

Burinskienė

Seržantė

2022

Sustainability

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Digitalisation provides access to an integrated network of information that can benefit society and businesses. However, the evidence of sustainability in business is less researched. In our paper, by building up the research approach, we address the relevant gap by investigating how sustainable development goals represent the interrelationship between digitalisation and sustainability. Such research is particularly important because understandings of digitalisation and sustainability determine how different actors, including business managers and policymakers, act in response to those imperatives to develop future employees skills starting from school age. Following a multi-method approach, we have combined our analysis into two steps examining the relationship between digitalisation and sustainability. Building digital networks, business managers and policy makers using digital means can create some unique opportunities to strategically address sustainable development challenges for the United Nations Targets (SDG) to ensure higher productivity, education, and an equality-oriented society. This point of view describes the potential of digitalisation for society and businesses of the future. The authors revise the links between digitalisation and sustainability in the European Union countries by using data available in Eurostat and UNECE public databases. The two-stage methodology for the identification of the relationship between ICT and sustainability is used in the paper and a linear regression model is applied. The results showed tiers with five SDGs, focusing on business, and all these tiers are fixed in the constructed equations for each SDG. The recommended solution is statistically valid and proves the novelty of this research. Among digitalisation indicators, only mobile-cellular subscriptions and fixed-broadband sub-basket prices in part do not affect researched sustainable development indicators.

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“…The first is the examination of the environmental consequences of industrial expansion through the prism of sustainable development. Here, we might note the scientific works of М. van der Velden (2018), C. Gensch et al (2017), S. Kunkel and D. Tyfield (2021), B. Kosovych (2021), A.…”

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World Industry Digitization in the Context of Ensuring Climate Neutrality

Maksymova

Kuryliak

2022

JEE

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The article examines the connection between digitalization and climate neutrality of economy, which is an obvious mainstream in the modern world. Global development programs aimed at solving climate problems and digital transformation of the industry are analyzed. Strategic directions of climate neutrality achievement are considered in accordance with the EU 2050 Strategy, aimed at reducing the greenhouse effect and CO2 emissions. Comparative analysis of the volumes of greenhouse gases emissions generated by the economy of different countries of the world related to ratios of their GDP is carried out. Critical limit of greenhouse gas emissions per 1 million dollars of the country’s GDP is determined, which is an indicator of necessity to implement environmentally friendly approach. Relying on the experience of the world heavyweights of modern industry (USA, China, Germany, etc.), it is emphasised that the modern economic system has the potential to achieve climate neutrality, introducing innovative practices and digital tools The capacity for such implementation is assessed on the basis of global digital competitiveness indicator, indicating general technological readiness of most countries for digitization. A list of tasks and projects of digital transformation in the field of climate problems and environmental protection is defined on the example of Ukraine. The conclusion is made about synergistic implementation of digital and environmental initiatives as a great contribution to the sustainable reconstruction of the domestic industry in the nearest future.

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Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda

Cited by 54 publications

References 36 publications

Digitalization and the Anthropocene

Digitalization and the Anthropocene

Digitalisation as the Indicator of the Evidence of Sustainability in the European Union

World Industry Digitization in the Context of Ensuring Climate Neutrality

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