Environmental Online Communication

This book brings together high quality articles exploring the design, implementation, management, funding, promotion and evaluation of networked information systems that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. Case studies of deployed and planned information systems complement theoretical work on the methodological, technological and organizational foundations of environmental online communication.

Dr Arno Scharl is Professor of Information Systems at the Business School of the University of Western Australia. He completed his doctoral research on reference modeling of mass information systems at the Vienna University of Economics and Business administration. Additionally, he holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Vienna, Department of Sports Physiology. Between 1998 and 2000, he worked as visiting research fellow at University of California, Berkeley and at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. Drawing on ten years of experience in developing and evaluating Web-based information systems, he is co-founder of the ECOresearch network and the ECOmonitor project. Having authored more than 70 refereed publications, his research and teaching interests focus on Web development, Web mining, content analysis, media monitoring, and the various aspects of environmental online communication.