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The Environmental Implications of Electronic Commerce - A Critical Review and Framework for Future Investigation

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

There are accelerating trends for the implementation of electronic commerce(e-commerce) as an extra marketing channel for selling products globally via the access of the

Internet. This is expected to in¯uence the shape of future cities and the conservation of natural

resources. This paper critically reviews the current research work to date regarding the

environmental implications of e-commerce. The main observation is that there are dif®culties to

generalise the results. There is a general agreement that it is highly dif®cult, if not impossible, to

state if the damaging effects of e-commerce on the environment can weigh over the advantageous

effects or the contrary. One proposition in this context is that instead of looking at e-commerce as

ªa vehicle driving towards freely satisfying the market needsº, we should look at e-commerce as ªa

cart attached to our vehicle towards sustainable developmentº.

Publiceringsår

2003

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

460-476

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Management of Environmental Quality

Volym

14

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Ämne

  • Other Mechanical Engineering

Nyckelord

  • Internet
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Enviromental management
  • Electronic commerce
  • Environment
  • Environmental assessment
  • Energy consumption
  • packaging logistics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1477-7835