caa a22 4500 606169768 CHVBK 20210128100713.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10098-014-0851-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10098-014-0851-3 Is e-reading environmentally more sustainable than conventional reading? [Elektronische Daten] [Harish Jeswani, Adisa Azapagic] Technology is changing the way we read, with printed material being replaced by electronically published text such as e-books and e-newspapers. Although digitally published texts offer some advantages over printed material in terms of cost and ease of access, it is not immediately clear whether e-reading is environmentally a more sustainable alternative to conventional reading. Therefore, this paper reviews the literature and compares the environmental impacts of the two reading alternatives, taking a life cycle approach. The review of various studies indicates that there are large variations in the impacts for e-readers as well as the printed material, mainly owing to different assumptions. Nevertheless, the results of this work indicate clearly that e-reading can only be environmentally sustainable at very high usage rates, as manufacturing of e-readers has relatively high environmental impacts. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Books nationallicence E-books nationallicence E-paper nationallicence Newspapers nationallicence LCA nationallicence Carbon footprint nationallicence Jeswani Harish School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, The Mill, Sackville Street, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK aut Azapagic Adisa School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, The Mill, Sackville Street, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK aut Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/3(2015-03-01), 803-809 1618-954X 17:3<803 2015 17 10098 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-014-0851-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-014-0851-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jeswani Harish School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, The Mill, Sackville Street, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Azapagic Adisa School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, The Mill, Sackville Street, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/3(2015-03-01), 803-809 1618-954X 17:3<803 2015 17 10098