This article outlines European ICT development scenarios to 2010, presents scenarios for the adoption of these technologies and network services and identifies scenarios for associated economic and social change pertaining to accelerated globalization through e‐commerce; the increased dominance...

We have a joint responsibility around the world to act together to achieve sustainable global development. But while the information society can offer environmentally friendly lifestyles such as teleworking, it is also bringing a much larger proportion of the world population into the consumer...

In examining agricultural vulnerability to climate change in South Africa, we see that an important factor is the enormous existing socioeconomic disparity in access to resources, poverty levels, and capacities to adapt. Recent research results suggest that the South African farming sector is...