Digital transformation and environmental sustainability: A review and research agenda

Abdul Karim Feroz; Hangjung Zo; Ananth Chiravuri

doi:10.3390/su13031530

Digital transformation and environmental sustainability: A review and research agenda

Abdul Karim Feroz
, Hangjung Zo
, Ananth Chiravuri

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Abstract

Digital transformation refers to the unprecedented disruptions in society, industry, and organizations stimulated by advances in digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Presently, there is a lack of studies to map digital transformation in the environmental sustainability domain. This paper identifies the disruptions driven by digital transformation in the environmental sustainability domain through a systematic literature review. The results present a framework that outlines the transformations in four key areas: pollution control, waste management, sustainable production, and urban sustaina-bility. The transformations in each key area are divided into further sub‐categories. This study pro-poses an agenda for future research in terms of organizational capabilities, performance, and digital transformation strategy regarding environmental sustainability.

Original language	English
Article number	1530
Pages (from-to)	1-20
Number of pages	20
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031530
Publication status	Published - Feb 1 2021
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Artificial intelligence
Big data an-alytics
Digital transformation
Environmental sustainability
Internet of Things
Systematic literature review

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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