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Information and communication technology and the popular appropriation of sustainability problems

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  • Angela Guimaraes Pereira
  • Martin O'Connor

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Integrated assessment (IA) aims at the integration of knowledge from diverse sources as part of the policy-making process. Frequently, IA exploits computer models and other information and communication technology (ICT) in ways that are accessible to and used by only a limited range of scientists or within expert circles. Deepening the interface between citizens and scientists can, in this view, be seen to involve, on the one hand, improved communication of model results and policy analyses to citizens, and, on the other hand, better "integration" of knowledge held by citizens into the scientific IA process itself. But this is not all. Through and beyond these knowledge and information "transfer" functions, a reciprocal interactive use of ICT can promote a social "appropriation" of sustainability problems. This paper explains, with the example of greenhouse gas emissions, how the reciprocal interactive use of ICT can help to create the necessary social and political conditions for robust public policy orientations.

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  • Angela Guimaraes Pereira & Martin O'Connor, 1999. "Information and communication technology and the popular appropriation of sustainability problems," International Journal of Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3), pages 411-424.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsusd:v:2:y:1999:i:3:p:411-424
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    1. Rosa Misso & Nicola Marinelli & Irene Paola Borrelli, 2013. "Territorial Systems with Rural Vocation, Innovation and Climate Change: from the Web an Opportunity for the Sustainability of Well-Being," Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology, ScientificPapers.org, vol. 3(4), pages 1-5, August.
    2. Frame, Bob & Brown, Judy, 2008. "Developing post-normal technologies for sustainability," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(2), pages 225-241, April.

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