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Computing Research for Sustainability (Paperback)
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A broad and growing literature describes the deep and
multidisciplinary nature of the sustainability challenges faced by
the United States and the world. Despite the profound technical
challenges involved, sustainability is not, at its root, a
technical problem, nor will merely technical solutions be
sufficient. Instead, deep economic, political, and cultural
adjustments will ultimately be required, along with a major,
long-term commitment in each sphere to deploy the requisite
technical solutions at scale.
Nevertheless, technological advances and enablers have a clear role
in supporting such change, and information technology (IT) is a
natural bridge between technical and social solutions because it
can offer improved communication and transparency for fostering the
necessary economic, political, and cultural adjustments. Moreover,
IT is at the heart of nearly every large-scale socioeconomic
system-including systems for finance, manufacturing, and the
generation and distribution of energy-and so sustainability-focused
changes in those systems are inextricably linked with advances in
IT.
The focus of Computing Research for Sustainability is "greening
through IT," the application of computing to promote sustainability
broadly. The aim of this report is twofold: to shine a spotlight on
areas where IT innovation and computer science (CS) research can
help, and to urge the computing research community to bring its
approaches and methodologies to bear on these pressing global
challenges. Computing Research for Sustainability focuses on
addressing medium- and long-term challenges in a way that would
have significant, measurable impact. The findings and recommended
principles of the Committee on Computing Research for Environmental
and Societal Sustainability concern four areas: (1) the relevance
of IT and CS to sustainability; (2) the value of the CS approach to
problem solving, particularly as it pertains to sustainability
challenges; (3) key CS research areas; and (4) strategy and
pragmatic approaches for CS research on sustainability.
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