Smart Cities

Social and Environmental Challenges and Opportunities for Local Authorities

Fateh Belaïd, Anvita Arora (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 388 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-35663-6 (ISBN)

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This edited volume discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality theoretical and empirical studies at the nexus of social, entrepreneurial, governmental and ecological transformation. The book covers a wide range of topics, with a view towards providing empirical evidence of the benefits of smart cities as well as practical frameworks for smart city initiatives. Topics discussed include: smart city transition pillars, innovation for smart and sustainable cities design and implementation, smart city governance, smart mobility within cities, and smart cities in emerging economies. This volume will be of use to students and researchers interested in resource economics, energy economics, sustainability, ICT, and governance, as well as policymakers working on smart city initiatives.

This is an open access book.

lt;p>Fateh BelaÏd is a Full Professor of Economics at the Lille Catholic University, Director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research unit, with appointments in Ecole des Ponts & Chaussées ParisTech, and Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques (France). He is also a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum. He received an HDR (Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research) from Orléans University, a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.S. degree in Applied Economics & Decision Theory from Littoral Côte d'Opale University, as well as M.S. degrees in Statistics from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, energy modeling, and econometrics.

Anvita Arora is an architect and transport planner whose current areas of research at KAPSARC (Saudi Arabia) include smart cities, electric vehicles, and freight mobility. Before joining the Center in February 2018, she was the managing director and CEO of Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans), an incubator company of IIT Delhi, where she led over 40 applied research and planning projects for 10 years for clients ranging from city level and country level authorities to funding agencies including the UNEP, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and DFID. Anvita has been teaching transport planning in the Urban Design Department of the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi for the past 12 years and was visiting faculty at the TERI University, Delhi. She was also associated with the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP) at IIT Delhi, a Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Centre of Excellence, for nearly 12 years.

1. Innovation and Smart Cities Research: A Review and Future Directions.- 2. The role of the fourth industrial revolution technologies in driving smart cities.- 3. Finance and economic return of smart city projects.- 4. Cities transformation and benefits of Smart Cities.- 5. Cities: the new form of international environmental governance.- 6. Smart Energy Cities: The Role of Behavioral Interventions in Reducing Electricity Demand in Buildings in Principality of Monaco.- 7. Back to the future: tapping into ancient knowledge toward human centered smart cities.- 8. Environmental retrofitting, a mandate for NEZ livable and sustainable GCC cities.- 9. A comprehensive smart system for social housing.- 10. Smart Modelling for Greener Urban Environments: The Digital Twin of the City of Imola.- 11. MUST-B: a multi-agent model to envisage the future challenges of sustainable urban development.- 12. A Systematic Literature Review on an Expansion of Transit-Oriented Development's Station Areas.- 13. Ergonomics of access: a new, broad and inclusive vision to better understand the links between the urban context on the conditions of access, accessibility and appropriation of resources of daily life in active modes.- 14. Mobility hubs, an innovative concept for a sustainable urban mobility? State of the art, guidelines and assessments of two European experiences.- 15. Micromobility in urban areas: Evaluation of several scenarios with respect to detailed characteristics of the city.- 16. Smart Cities initiatives and perspectives in emerging economies.- 17. Data driven urban management for Saudi cities: Practices, challenges, and opportunities.- 18. Smart Cities: GCC and Kuwait Experience.- 19. Smart Cities from an Indian Perspective: Evolving Ambitions and Incorporating Sustainable Practices

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Energy, Resource and Environmental Economics
Zusatzinfo	XV, 388 p. 77 illus., 66 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	724 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	climate change • Ecology • Energy Transition • ICT • open access • smart cities • smart governance • smart mobility • sustainability
ISBN-10	3-031-35663-2 / 3031356632
ISBN-13	978-3-031-35663-6 / 9783031356636
Zustand	Neuware