The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design
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Links:: The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design
Metadata
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
Bibliography
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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Related:: @Venters.etal.2018.SoftwareSustainabilityResearch
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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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.
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.