Thomas, Vanessa and Remy, Christian and Hazas, Michael David and Bates, Oliver Emile Glaves (2017) HCI and environmental public policy:opportunities for engagement. In: CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 6986-6992. ISBN 9781450346559
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Abstract
This note discusses opportunities for the HCI community to engage with environmental public policy. It draws on insights and observations made during the primary author’s recent work for a policy unit at Global Affairs Canada, which is a federal ministry of the Government of Canada. During that work, the primary author identified several domains of environmental public policy that are of direct relevance to the HCI commu- nity. This note contributes a preliminary discussion of how, why, with whom, and in what capacity HCI researchers and practitioners might engage with three types of environmental public policy: climate change, waste electrical and electronic equipment, and green ICT procurement policies. This builds on existing public policy and environmental knowledge within the HCI community and responds directly to calls from some members to engage with environmental public policy.