The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design

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Authors:: Becker, Christoph; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Duboc, Leticia; Easterbrook, Steve; Mahaux, Martin; Penzenstadler, Birgit; Rodriguez-Navas, Guillermo; Salinesi, Camille; Seyff, Norbert; Venters, Colin; Calero, Coral; Kocak, Sedef Akinli; Betz, Stefanie
Title:: The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design
Date:: 2015
URL:: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6968
DOI:: 10.48550/arXiv.1410.6968

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Becker, C., Chitchyan, R., Duboc, L., Easterbrook, S., Mahaux, M., Penzenstadler, B., Rodriguez-Navas, G., Salinesi, C., Seyff, N., Venters, C., Calero, C., Kocak, S. A., & Betz, S. (2015). The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design (arXiv:1410.6968). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1410.6968

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Keywords:: [Green Software]

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Abstract

Sustainability is a central concern for our society, and software systems increasingly play a central role in it. As designers of software technology, we cause change and are responsible for the effects of our design choices. We recognize that there is a rapidly increasing awareness of the fundamental need and desire for a more sustainable world, and there is a lot of genuine goodwill. However, this alone will be ineffective unless we come to understand and address our persistent misperceptions. The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design aims to initiate a much needed conversation in and beyond the software community by highlighting such perceptions and proposing a set of fundamental principles for sustainability design.

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becker.etal.2015.karlskronamanifestosustainability (pg. 1)

Sustainability is at its heart a systemic concept and has to be understood on a set of dimensions, including social, individual, environmental, economic, and technical.

becker.etal.2015.karlskronamanifestosustainability (pg. 2)

What are those dimensions, really?

Individual sustainability refers to maintaining individual human capital (e.g., health, education, skills, knowledge, leadership, and access to services).
Social sustainability aims at preserving the societal communities in their solidarity and services.
Economic sustainability aims at maintaining capital and added value.
Environmental sustainability refers to improving human welfare by protecting the natural resources: water, land, air, minerals and ecosystem services.
Technical sustainability refers to longevity of information, systems, and infrastructure and their adequate evolution with changing surrounding conditions.