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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128166398 ISBN 13: 9780128166390

Publisher: Elsevier, 2019

Synopsis

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

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About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128166398
• ISBN 13: 9780128166390
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Visvizi Anna, Lytras Miltiadis