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Sustainable Development and Computing—An Introduction

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Computational Sustainability

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Computational Sustainability is the computer scientific branch of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability research, an applied science about the research in sustainable solutions and their implementation. This introductory chapter describes the origins and the development of common and current sustainability goals and the development of sustainability science as separate field of research. It points out the relevance of Computer Science in many fields and gives an overview of the state of the art research in Computational Sustainability as well as about the content of this edited volume and about the case studies that are addressed in subsequent chapters.

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    http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/38/a38r161.htm.

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    https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf.

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The author particularly thanks his editor colleagues Katharina Morik and Kristian Kersting as well as all other contributors and chapter authors to the book very much for their great work, the support, and their patience during the process of finishing the volume. We hope to contribute a humble share to the solutions that address the challenge of world wide sustainable development—while enriching and transforming Computer Science and its methods.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Gö, Goerlitz, Germany

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  2. Fraunhofer IAIS, University of Bonn, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Kristian Kersting

  3. Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

    Katharina Morik

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Lässig, J. (2016). Sustainable Development and Computing—An Introduction. In: Lässig, J., Kersting, K., Morik, K. (eds) Computational Sustainability. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31858-5_1

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