Sustainable grey/green digital technology: Active ageing technologies and environmental challenges
Author(s)
Date Issued
2024
Type
bookPart
Start Page
265
End Page
269
Abstract
What is sustainability technology? (Mulder et al., 2011). It is not so easy to clarify, understand, and put in clear categories the multidimensional concept of sustainability, one of the most often quoted definitions of sustainable development comes from the United Nations (UN) World Commission on Environment and Development: sustainable development is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Hajian & Kashani, 2021, p. 1).
Nowadays that definition appears not so sufficient to achieve the contemporary challenges, it must be criticized the idea that sustainability is just needs and not for example, feelings and emotions (Urbani, 2021b), furthermore development is a controversial concept (Bisogni et al., 2011),
development is often connected to economic aspects and growth, but it is more heuristic underlines the generalized improvement of living conditions and not just economic expansion connected by gross domestic product (GDP).
Sustainability is also often connected to environmental issues, but the environment is just a sphere to conceptualize sustainability, the social sphere, economic sphere, cultural, and political are equally important to understand and describe that concept. It is possible to assert that sustainability is one of the great challenges of our time. It brings together several global problems from pollution to the space in which we live: poverty, climate change, depletion of natural and mineral resources, ecological crisis, and global inequity.