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This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges
faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions
enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the
smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within
a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and
technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges
faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city
developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches,
methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these
challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e-) planning
and (e-)participation; smart data management to facilitate
decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a
variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of
climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure,
tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. The book presents
current and potential pathways and applications for the evolution
of smart cities and communities, taking into consideration the
unique problems and opportunities emanating from their specific
geographical location. The case study examples mainly concern small
and medium-sized cities and communities as well as insular areas in
the Mediterranean region, while also incorporating lessons learned
from other parts of the world. Their focus is on the specific
opportunities and threats emerging in these urban and insular
environments, which are characterized by their role as globally
known tourist destinations, their coastal or port character, and
unique cultural resources, as well as the high rated vulnerability
in very many sustainability respects (social, economic,
biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found
in the Mediterranean region at large
This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges
faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions
enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the
smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within
a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and
technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges
faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city
developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches,
methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these
challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e-) planning
and (e-)participation; smart data management to facilitate
decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a
variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of
climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure,
tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. The book presents
current and potential pathways and applications for the evolution
of smart cities and communities, taking into consideration the
unique problems and opportunities emanating from their specific
geographical location. The case study examples mainly concern small
and medium-sized cities and communities as well as insular areas in
the Mediterranean region, while also incorporating lessons learned
from other parts of the world. Their focus is on the specific
opportunities and threats emerging in these urban and insular
environments, which are characterized by their role as globally
known tourist destinations, their coastal or port character, and
unique cultural resources, as well as the high rated vulnerability
in very many sustainability respects (social, economic,
biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found
in the Mediterranean region at large
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