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Assessing Global Environmental Sustainability: Second-Order Effect of Information and Communication Technology

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The term information and communication technology plays a vital role in the present scenario by being part of several facets of human activity. With time, implementation of ICT has developed both positive and negative impacts on the environment. Instantaneous negative ecological blow takes place due to the creation, use, and throwing away of ICT products. However, constructive outcome arises because of the replacement of various products and services by ICT artifacts. There exist many indirect corollaries and one of that   includes money saved due to ICT-stimulated energy efficiency, and these corollaries are applied in the utilization of others products and services. This paper focuses on presenting the different facets, which include reviews and discussion of various second-order effects that are linked with the usage of ICT. The second order of ICT can be linked with the use of e-commerce for an example. This research paper shall also focus on the necessary steps taken for developing processes that comprise second-order effects for evaluating the ecological impacts of ICT.

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  1. Sri Sri University, Cuttack, India

    Bhubaneswari Bisoyi

  2. School of Civil Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India

    Divyajit Das

  3. School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India

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  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  3. School of Computer Applications, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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  4. School of Computer and Information Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Bisoyi, B., Das, D., Das, B. (2020). Assessing Global Environmental Sustainability: Second-Order Effect of Information and Communication Technology. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Mohanty, J., Udgata, S. (eds) Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 160. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9690-9_15

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