ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the overall relationship between Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) and environmental sustainability. It explains the different orders of effects of ICTs on pollution and climate change mitigation including green and smart ICT applications. The chapter uses analytical frameworks to understand environmental monitoring information systems. It categorizes the use of ICTs in disaster management and interprets analytical models of resilience and e-resilience. Disaster management is intimately linked to environmental sustainability given the link between climate change and the increase in number and severity of climate-related disasters. Developing countries need to adapt to two environmental factors: short-term shocks such as climate-related disasters, and longer-term trends such as climate change or growing pollution levels. Monitoring and strategy fit together via the information value chain: monitoring represents the data capture, processing and storage, and the creation of environmental information and knowledge; strategy represents high-level decisions and actions that flow from that monitoring.
