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    Principles for re-designing information systems for environmental sustainability

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    Authors
    Baskerville, Richard
    Pries-Heje, J.
    Recker, J.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Baskerville, R. and Pries-Heje, J. and Recker, J. 2016. Principles for re-designing information systems for environmental sustainability, 6th IFIP World Information Technology Forum, WITFOR 2016, pp. 14-25.
    Source Title
    IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
    Source Conference
    6th IFIP World Information Technology Forum, WITFOR 2016
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-319-44447-5_2
    ISBN
    9783319444468
    School
    School of Information Systems
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53529
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016.Many information systems claim to be “green”, meaning in support of environmental sustainability. But at closer look we find that these claims are often unsubstantiated; in other words, many green systems are not making any environment more sustainable. We identify three main root causes. First, the ‘environment’ is often ill-defined. Second, systems often overlook that ‘sustainability’ is a targeted function dependent on the goals of some stakeholders, which may include designers, users, organizations, policy makers, society or the planet as a whole. Third, we find that research on green information systems often overlooks conceptualizations such as ecology, environment or sustainability that originate in the sciences of the system, i.e., the basis on which information systems are built. To address these issues we present eight new design principles unique to the development of Green Information Systems that can act as prescriptive coherent design theory for developing information systems that improve environmental sustainability.

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