Industry 4.0 Technologies for Environmental Sustainability: Intended and Unintended Consequences

Industry 4.0 technologies are expected to have a positive impact on the global economy by promoting autonomous interoperability, agility, flexibility, decision-making, efficiency or cost reduction, which are also expected to be resource efficient. However, new and emerging technologies can also have potentially harmful social and environmental impacts that must be considered.

The goal of this book is to provide a deeper understanding of how Industry 4.0 technologies can benefit or harm the e...