Investigating the role of smartness for sustainability: Insights from the Smart Grid domain

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0555-4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0555-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0555-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11625-018-0555-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Investigating the role of smartness for sustainability: Insights from the Smart Grid domain

Original language description

Over the past decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) established themselves as the key force towards more effective and efficient usage of resources in our society, namely via better use of available information, automation, stakeholder involvement, and decision support. By analyzing recent advancements in knowledge offered by ICT, it is possible to identify their strong correlation with the principles, aims, and interests of sustainability science, which can be highly inspired by ICT-intensive domains. In this paper, we study the theoretical background on system thinking as an interpretative lens able to support better understanding of dimensions and dynamics involved in the domain of sustainability, and examine the role of ICT in advancing sustainability goals. Then, we analyze the domain of the Smart Grid as a prominent example of complex technological contribution in face of the challenges of sustainability, and present the insights from this domain, which are turned into sustainability guidelines for other domains, linking smartness, and sustainability in the light of systems thinking and Smart Grid experience. In summary, the core recommendation of this work is the employment of information technology to widen the scope of the sustainability game by sliding activities in time and space, and in engaging more players in the game, which is now made possible thanks to the advancement in ICT.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability Science

ISSN

1862-4065

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

JP - JAPAN

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1299-1309

UT code for WoS article

000443718800008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85044306410