TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital technology and energy sustainability
T2 - Recent advances, challenges, and opportunities
AU - Wei, Chu
AU - Li, Chuan Zhong
AU - Löschel, Andreas
AU - Managi, Shunsuke
AU - Lundgren, Tommy
N1 - Funding Information:
The guest editors sincerely thank all the contributing authors and reviewers for their efforts. We thank Prof. Ming Xu, the editor-in-chief of RCR, for his help in preparing the proposal and organizing the VSI. We also thank Prof. Zhi Cao for his effort in revising the editorial. Chu Wei thanks for the financial supports of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China ( 21XNL020 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Digitalization and sustainability represent two global mainstreams, which affect many dimensions of economic activity and daily life. However, their interaction remains still underexploited with different synergies and tradeoffs between these goals. This Virtual Special Issue (VSI) entitled “Digital technology and energy sustainability: impacts and policy needs” presents recent research on the nexus between digital technology and energy sustainability. This editorial introduces seven recent studies on a variety of topics, presenting core materials and guidance in the related domains. The findings indicate that scope, topic, measurement, method, and data might be in contrast or even in contradiction to previous studies. Although the black box of the complex nexus between digital technology and energy sustainability is still not fully uncovered, the findings indicate that the spatial factor and technology-induced rebound effect are most likely the underlying mechanisms. Additional future research directions for exploring the digitalization–sustainability interaction are discussed in this VSI.
AB - Digitalization and sustainability represent two global mainstreams, which affect many dimensions of economic activity and daily life. However, their interaction remains still underexploited with different synergies and tradeoffs between these goals. This Virtual Special Issue (VSI) entitled “Digital technology and energy sustainability: impacts and policy needs” presents recent research on the nexus between digital technology and energy sustainability. This editorial introduces seven recent studies on a variety of topics, presenting core materials and guidance in the related domains. The findings indicate that scope, topic, measurement, method, and data might be in contrast or even in contradiction to previous studies. Although the black box of the complex nexus between digital technology and energy sustainability is still not fully uncovered, the findings indicate that the spatial factor and technology-induced rebound effect are most likely the underlying mechanisms. Additional future research directions for exploring the digitalization–sustainability interaction are discussed in this VSI.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106803
DO - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106803
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85145564998
SN - 0921-3449
VL - 190
JO - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
JF - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
M1 - 106803
ER -