Nordic Smart Sustainable City : Lessons from Theory and Practice

This book critically explores research and development on the smart sustainable city, emphasizing the tension and association between smartness and sustainability, both as a concept and as a phenomenon in a Nordic context.

Worldwide, increasing urbanization and its related challenges, along with urgent environmental issues, have sped up the international interest for smart, sustainable cities as a concept that could increase the efficiency of services, minimize environmental impacts, and improve the quality of living in cities and urban areas. This book scientifically discusses the provenance, substance, and processes of the smart sustainable city, with illustrative examples of how it is translated into urban realities in a medium-sized city, drawing upon Stavanger, one of the first, and one of the leading smart sustainable cities in Europe. The book’s multidisciplinary perspectives and thematic lenses include education and knowledge, arts and culture, safety, climate and sustainability, mobility and transport, economics, democracy, participation, innovation and entrepreneurship, data, and communication. While demonstrating the academic breadth and wide-ranging impact of the smart sustainable city concept, the book promotes and updates the ground for mutual understanding, communication, and collaboration between multiple disciplines and stakeholders involved in developing functional, democratic, and sustainable solutions for the urban present and future.

A Nordic Smart Sustainable City: Lessons from Theory and Practice presents an overview of scientific and practical current approaches in a readable format for practitioners and administrators in municipalities and related businesses, for researchers, academics, educators, students, and stakeholders.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Barbara Maria Sageidet is a professor of natural science in the Department of Early Childhood Teacher Education at the University of Stavanger (UiS). She has a PhD in soil and environmental sciences from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, related to paleoecology and soil micromorphology. Her research relates to natural science, natural science didactics and sustainability in kindergarten and environmental citizenship, with interests in environmental and soil literacy, urban gardens, and urban childhood.

Daniela Müller-Eie is a professor of city and regional planning in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger and holds a PhD in architecture/urban sustainability from Glasgow University. Her research generally focuses on the interaction between the physical environment, planning measures, socio-cultural conditions and psychological factors. More specifically, she studies sustainable urban mobility and travel behaviour and related incentives.

Kristiane M.F. Lindland is a research manager for climate, environment and sustainability in the division for Health and Society at NORCE Research and holds a minor position as an associate professor in change management in the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. She holds a PhD in management from the University of Stavanger. Her research areas stretch from innovation, design, leadership, and organization to energy justice, citizen involvement and sustainability. What characterizes her approach to these themes is a relational and processual understanding of reality.