Event Information:

• About

  

  A word cloud based on the rapporteurs' reports from our workshop in June 2013.

   

  This site is for those who are interested in the application of information and communications technology for environmental regulation.

  Aims

  From online booksellers highlighting interesting items, social networking sites encouraging users to divulge personal information and auction sites using reputation-based systems to reassure consumers when entering into transactions with strangers, computers can, and do, change human behaviour and have changed society in dramatic ways. While there is some research on how ICT can be used for environmental regulation, we have not yet developed a full understanding of the issues. As society considers how to deal with the challenges of climate change, loss of biodiversity and environmental degradation generally, the continuing implementation of more refined and effective means of environmental regulation requires urgent attention. ICT has an important role in this process and this website aims to build a global network of researchers dealing with these issues.

  Activities

  Our principal activity to date has been the workshop “Information and Communications Technology for Environmental Regulation: Developing a Research Agenda” in June 2013 at the National University of Ireland Galway. We also have a LinkedIn group.

  We also organised a panel on Using ICT for environmental regulation. Overlaps between privacy and environmental law at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection 2015, and a workshop on Blockchain and Sustainable Communities in 2016.