Lorenz M. Hilty

Dr. Lorenz M. Hilty is head of the Technology and Society Unit at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) and a professor for information systems at the University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland (FHSO). He is currently responsible for the research and development program "Sustainability in the Information Society" of the Council of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH), chair of the Technical Committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society, and Swiss delegate to the Technical Committee "Computers and Society" of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP-TC9). He earned his master's and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and has been working on information and simulation systems in environmental research and sustainable development for two decades. He has published several books and more than 70 articles in this field.

Publications

Information and Communication Technologies for a more Sustainable World
Information and Communication Technologies for a more Sustainable World
Lorenz M. Hilty. © 2011. 9 pages.
As has been discussed for decades, a reduction of the input of natural resources into industrial production and consumption by a factor of 4-10 is a necessary condition for...
Information and Communication Technologies for a more Sustainable World
Information and Communication Technologies for a more Sustainable World
Lorenz M. Hilty. © 2011. 10 pages.
As has been discussed for decades, a reduction of the input of natural resources into industrial production and consumption by a factor of 4-10 is a necessary condition for...
Information Systems for Sustainable Development
Information Systems for Sustainable Development
Lorenz M. Hilty, Eberhard K. Seifert, Rene Treibert. © 2005. 398 pages.
Information Systems for Sustainable Development provides a survey on approaches to information systems supporting sustainable development in the private or public sector. It also...
A General Modelling and Simulation System for Sustainability Impact Assessment in the Field of Traffic and Logistics
A General Modelling and Simulation System for Sustainability Impact Assessment in the Field of Traffic and Logistics
Lorenz M. Hilty, Ruth Meyer, Thomas F. Ruddy. © 2001. 19 pages.
Traffic comprises a large and persistently growing share of resource consumption and environmental stress in modern economies. Even on our way towards an Information and...