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Sustainable Development: ICT, New Directions, and Strategies

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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)

Abstract

This chapter aims to make an inventory of what sustainable development (SD) means. Evaluating the implications of the concept from 1951 to the present, one can observe a substantiation of the concept and an intensification of the involvement of organizations. The implications of individuals, organizations, local and international authorities are at different levels. From this perspective, it is important to conduct research on the implications, new directions developed, and strategies that can be developed based on individual and organizational characteristics, but also national and global conditions. This chapter evaluates the new activities of sustainability and the action of information and communication technology (ICT) on the 17 objectives of sustainability. At the same time, an evaluation of new technologies on life cycle sustainability assessment is performed. At the end of the chapter is presented a case study that highlights the importance of urban agriculture in the context of sustainable development.

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    https://www.iucn.org.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/milestones/humanenvironment#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20Conference%20on%20the%20Human%20Environment%20(also%20known,June%205-16%2C%201972.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/milestones/humanenvironment#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20Conference%20on%20the%20Human%20Environment%20(also%20known,June%205-16%2C%201972.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5987our-common-future.pdf.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5987our-common-future.pdf.

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    https://unfccc.int/resource/ccsites/senegal/fact/fs221.htm.

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    https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992.

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    https://www.un.org/press/en/1997/19971201.ENV453.html.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/milesstones/wssd.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20.

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    https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit.

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    https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement/key-aspects-of-the-paris-agreement.

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    https://enb.iisd.org/climate/cop22/.

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    https://www.g20.org.

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    https://cop24.gov.pl.

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    https://unfccc.int/cop25.

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    https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/conferences/glasgow-climate-change-conference.

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  1. Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Automation and Computers, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Florin Dragan

  2. Management Department, Faculty of Management in Production and Transportation, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Larisa Ivascu

  3. Research Center for Engineering and Management, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Larisa Ivascu

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Dragan, F., Ivascu, L. (2021). Sustainable Development: ICT, New Directions, and Strategies. In: Muthu, S.S. (eds) Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4562-4_5

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