Impacts of ICT on the Spatial Differentiation of Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in Poland

• Authors: Piotr Werner , Bartłomiej Iwańczak

Abstracts

EN

The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has significant economic and social impacts at both the global and regional level. Some of these implications have been perceived as positive and unexpected. While both the positive and negative social and economic impacts have been highlighted in the literature, opinions on these impacts remain ambiguous. Those aspects considered to be advantageous include faster communication, ease of use, development in the range of services and revenues, and an increase in individuals’ free time allowance. ICT penetrates all branches of the economy as a set of general purpose technologies. New information and communication technologies ease everyday life, serve as tools to help people in extreme situations, e.g. accidents, illnesses or natural disasters, and are also the pillars of contemporary entertainment media. The usefulness of ICT has been stressed and loudly disseminated to a large extent by the media. On the other hand, these new technologies sensitize society in quite new ways to the well-known natural hazards that people have encountered in the past.

Keywords

EN

ICT; social vulnerability; natural hazards; electric energy; rebound effect; Poland

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 64-71

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Piotr Werner

• Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

author

Bartłomiej Iwańczak

• Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1035986