Urbanization, digital systems adoption and environmental integration in the Euro-Mediterranean region: Is the IT transition green?

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Bruce Iortile Iormom, Paul Terhemba Iorember, Kenneth Diyoke, and 1 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5349024/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract This study characterized the link between urbanization, digital system adoption and environmental integration among the Euro-Mediterranean countries (from 2000–2019). Environmental integration proxied by load capacity factor was found to be decreasing with increased digital systems adoption. While load capacity factor decreased with increased GDP, it however increased with increased GDP 2 . The study found evidence invalidating the Green IT proposition while validating the load capacity curve hypothesis for the Euro-Mediterranean countries. 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