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Digitalization to achieve sustainable development goals: Steps towards a Smart Green Planet

📅 Published: June 19, 2021 👤 María E. Mondéjar, Ram Avtar, Heyker Lellanis Baños Díaz et al. 📖 The Science of The Total Environment 📊 878 citations
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Digitalization provides access to an integrated network of unexploited big data with potential benefits for society and the environment. It then discusses the benefits of digitalization to catalyze the transition towards sustainable manufacturing practices and enhance citizens' health wellbeing by providing digital access to care, particularly for the underserved communities.

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Key Findings
  • 1 The development of smart systems connected to the internet of things can generate unique opportunities to strategically address challenges associated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ensure an equitable, environmentally sustainable, and healthy society.
  • 2 This perspective describes the opportunities that digitalization can provide towards building the sustainable society of the future.
  • 3 Smart technologies are envisioned as game-changing tools, whereby their integration will benefit the three essential elements of the food-water-energy nexus: (i) sustainable food production; (ii) access to clean and safe potable water; and (iii) green energy generation and usage.
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Article Details
Source OpenAlex
Category ⚛️ Physics & Space Science
Published Jun 19, 2021
Journal The Science of The Total Environment
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148539
Citations 878
Authors María E. Mondéjar, Ram Avtar, Heyker Lellanis Baños Díaz, Rama Kant Dubey, Jesús Esteban