Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats

by Anna Visvizi (Editor), Miltiadis Lytras (Editor)

Overview

Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats serves as a primer on smart cities, providing readers with no prior knowledge on smart cities with an understanding of the current smart cities debates. Gathering cutting-edge research and insights from academics, practitioners and policymakers around the globe, it identifies and discusses the nascent threats and challenges contemporary urban areas face, highlighting the drivers and ways of navigating these issues in an effective manner. Uniquely providing a blend of conceptual academic analysis with empirical insights, the book produces policy recommendations that boost urban sustainability and resilience.

• Combines conceptual academic approaches with empirically-driven insights and best practices
• Offers new approaches and arguments from inter and multi-disciplinary perspectives
• Provides foundational knowledge and comparative insight from global case-studies that enable critical reflection and operationalization
• Generates policy recommendations that pave the way to debate and case-based planning

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128166482
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/18/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	61 MB
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About the Author

Anna Visvizi is an economist and political scientist, editor, and research and political consultant with extensive experience in academia, think tank and government sectors in Europe and the United States. Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, and Visiting Scholar at Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Professor Visvizi’s expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics, and ICT. This translates in her research and advisory roles in the fields of AI and geopolitics, smart cities and smart villages, knowledge and innovation management, and technology diffusion, especially with regard to the EU and BRI.
Miltiadis D. Lytras is an expert in advanced computer science and management, editor, lecturer, and research consultant, with extensive experience in academia and the business sector in Europe and Asia. Dr. Lytras is a Research Professor at Deree College - The American College of Greece and a Distinguished Scientist at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Lytras is a world-class expert in the fields of cognitive computing, information systems, technology enabled innovation, social networks, computers in human behavior, and knowledge management. In his work, Dr. Lytras seeks to bring together and exploit synergies among scholars and experts committed to enhancing the quality of education for all.

Table of Contents

1. Smart cities: emerging issues and challenges

Part I: Safety and Security2. ICTs’-enhanced urban space monitoring&surveillance systems3. Public Safety Policies using Volunteered Geographic Information4. Managing Public Health in Smart Cities

Part II: Managing public space: democracy, participation, decision-making5. Civic participation and social media6. Knowledge society technologies for Smart Cities development7. Bridging the virtual and the real in smart cities: smart cities’ tangible public space

Part III: Well-being and social inclusion8. Challenges and limitation of smart cities’ (re)-design and applications9. Well-being and mental health 10. Sustainable development in the Smart Cities ecosystem11. Politics of Support in Big IS Projects

Part IV: Global contexts12. Smart cities diplomacy13. Smart city as a steering regional competitiveness and sustainable development 14. Re-thinking the migration-smart city nexus15. involuntary Smart city migration re-considered

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Drawing on the latest theoretical and applied research, examines the political, economic, and social impacts of implementing smart city technologies