Sustainable development and computing—an introduction

Abstract

Computational Sustainability is the computer scientific branch of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability research, an applied science about the research in sustainable solutions and their implementation. This introductory chapter describes the origins and the development of common and current sustainability goals and the development of sustainability science as separate field of research. It points out the relevance of Computer Science in many fields and gives an overview of the state of the art research in Computational Sustainability as well as about the content of this edited volume and about the case studies that are addressed in subsequent chapters.