Joint Assessment of Digital Resilience and Environmental Performance: A Scoping Review of Enterprise IT Measurement Frameworks

Authors

  • Adam Bennett Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, American University of Beirut Author
  • Nora Olsen Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, University of Jordan Author
  • Ibrahim Farouk Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, Imperial College London Author

Abstract

Digital resilience and environmental performance are increasingly discussed together, yet organisations lack common measurement frameworks that capture both without obscuring trade-offs. We conducted a scoping review of enterprise IT frameworks addressing resilience, reliability, sustainability, or environmentally responsible digital operations. Searches across academic and professional databases identified 2,087 records, with 126 sources included in the final mapping. Resilience frameworks most often measured availability, recovery time, redundancy, and continuity testing, whereas environmental frameworks emphasised energy, carbon, hardware utilisation, and lifecycle impact. Only 14 sources explicitly connected resilience and environmental indicators. Common tensions included redundant infrastructure increasing energy use, aggressive consolidation reducing failure tolerance, and geographically diverse recovery increasing data-transfer overhead. Few frameworks specified how to evaluate these trade-offs quantitatively. The review identifies a need for joint assessment models that preserve separate technical and environmental indicators while making cross-domain consequences visible. Future frameworks should report service criticality, redundancy purpose, utilisation, energy source, recovery evidence, and lifecycle assumptions so that resilience improvements are not automatically interpreted as environmentally neutral, or vice versa.

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issue7

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2026-06-01

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Vol. 7 No. 01 (2026): Agentic AI, Intelligent Automation and Emerging Computing Frontiers

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