Smart Cities and the UN SDGs
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Smart Cities and the UN SDGs

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eBook - ePub

Smart Cities and the UN SDGs

About this book

Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving as a key reference for those seeking to make sense of the issues and challenges of smart cities and SDGs. - Includes numerous case studies from around the world - Features interdisciplinary insights from academic and practitioner experts - Offers an extensive literature review

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Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780323851510
eBook ISBN
9780323859189
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
City Planning & Urban Development
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Smart Cities and the UN SDGs
  2. Cover
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contributors
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1 Sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the smart city: A tool or an approach? (An introduction)
  8. Chapter 2 Inclusiveness, safety, resilience, and sustainability in the smart city context
  9. Chapter 3 Sustainability in smart cities: Merging theory and practice
  10. Chapter 4 Technology and SDGs in smart cities context
  11. Chapter 5 Governance and SDGs in smart cities context
  12. Chapter 6 Reinterpreting governance in smart cities: An ecosystem-based view
  13. Chapter 7 Open data portals for urban sustainable development: People, policies, and technology
  14. Chapter 8 The potential of location-based social networks for participatory urban planning
  15. Chapter 9 The Green Turn: Smart cities, the SDGs, and sustainability in the EU parties’ discourse
  16. Chapter 10 Exploring the relationship between the smart-sustainable city, well-being, and urban planning: An analysis of current approaches in Europe
  17. Chapter 11 Recognizing intra-urban disparities in smart cities: An example from Poland
  18. Chapter 12 Cybersecurity, sustainability, and resilience capabilities of a smart city
  19. Chapter 13 Sociological reflections on smart cities and city times
  20. Chapter 14 Smart city as the city of knowledge
  21. Chapter 15 Foresight: A visionary step for becoming a smart city
  22. Chapter 16 Transforming the city from within: SDGs and their transformative dynamics in the smart city (conclusions)
  23. Index

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