Environmental Online Communication

This book brings together artieies exploring the design, implementation, man agement, funding, promotion, and evaluation of networked information systems that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. Case stud ies of deployed and planned information systems complement theoretieal work on the methodologieal, technologieal, and organizational foundations of envi ronmental online communieation. Studying communieative strategies and processes that function between disci plines and worldviews, this book helps unearth hidden assumptions and miscon ceptions about environmental issues, contributes to a mutual understanding of existing problems, and suggests priorities for research and policy development. The 25 chapters contained in this volume analyze environmental online commu nieation from four interrelated perspectives: Raising Environmental Awareness, Environmental Science, Corporate Sustainability, and Networks and Virtual Communities. The chapters document social and technologieal challenges and allow readers to appreciate the diversity of approaches and projects. The initiative to compile this edited volume sterns from the activities of the ECOresearch Network [696], an interdisciplinary collaboration that encourages scientific discourse and critieal debate to establish a shared understanding of en vironmental online communieation. The network also hosts the book's official Web site at ecoresearch.net/springer [701], whieh provides supplemental material induding text sampies, bibliographie resources, project descriptions, and detailed author profiles induding current affiliations and research interests.

1 Environmental Information Systems and the Concept of Environmental Informatics.- 2 Mobile Access to Environmental Information.- 3 EnviWeb and Environmental Web Services: Case Study of an Environmental Web Portal.- 4 Web Coverage of Renewable Energy.- 5 Online Communication for Environmental Fundraising.- 6 How a Small Environmental Group Uses the Web to Inform and Promote Action: A Content Analysis.- 7 Usability Evaluation of an Environmental Web Site and its Support of the Organization's Mission and Goals.- 8 EFS Global Media Network: Exploring the Boundaries of Sustainable Education.- 9 An Online Community of Learners in Rural, Regional, and Remote Australia.- 10 Self-assessment of Consumptive Behavior Based on Material Intensity.- 11 Biodiversity and the Internet: Building and Using the Virtual World Museum.- 12 Climateprediction.net: A Global Community for Research in Climate Physics.- 13 Web Portal and Markup Language for Collaborative Environmental Research.- 14 Web-based Exploration of Environmental Data and Corresponding Metadata, in Particular Lineage Information.- 15 Sharing Environmental Maps on the Web: The Austrian EnviroMap System.- 16 System Architecture and Maintenance of the Ecoradar Web Portal.- 17 Environmental Investment Sites: Sector Analysis and Development of GreenMoney.at.- 18 How to Provide Customized Environmental Reports Properly.- 19 Harmonizing Document Type Definitions for Corporate Environmental Reports.- 20 Environmental Information Practices in the Chemical Industry.- 21 Epistemic Communities and Online Environmental Data Systems.- 22 Communication Process Analysis in Virtual Communities on Sustainable Development.- 23 Online Tools for a Sustainable Collaborative Economy.- 24 CBNRM Net: From Managing Natural Resources to ManagingEcosystems, Knowledge, and People.- 25 Patterns of Internet Use by Coastal Managers: Results of a Survey.- Online Resources.