UID:
kobvindex_INT0004386
Umfang:
1 electronic resource (xi, 424 pages) :
,
chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour), maps.
ISBN:
9783039282180
,
3039282182
,
9783038972242
,
303897224X
,
9783038972259
,
3038972258
Serie:
Sustainability ; 10.2018,special issue
Inhalt:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Research on smart cities matures and new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of smart cities are proposed. At the same time, problems pertinent to communities inhabiting rural areas are being addressed, only as part of discussions in contiguous fields of research, be it environmental studies, sociology, or agriculture. Even if rural areas and countryside communities have previously been a subject of concern for robust policy frameworks, such as the European Union's Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy, the concept of 'the village' has been largely absent in the debate. As a result, when advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) led to the emergence of a rich body of research on smart cities, the application and usability of ICT in the context of a village have remained underdiscussed in the literature. The idea to launch a concept-driven, practice-based and policymaking-oriented discussion on smart villages was first sketched during the Editors' field research and the realization that depopulation of rural areas and its implications for villages and their inhabitants have several short and long-term implications, which should be taken very seriously. The follow-up conversations with experts and practitioners from all over the world led to the consolidation of these ideas and them taking the form of research and papers presented in this volume. [...] Set against this backdrop, this volume delivers on four objectives. It delineates the conceptual boundaries of the concept of 'smart village'. It highlights in which ways 'smart village' is distinct from 'smart city'. It examines in which ways smart cities' research can enrich smart villages research. Finally, it sheds light on the smart village research agenda as it unfolds in European and global contexts."
Anmerkung:
EDITORIAL NOTE: "This is a reprint of articles from the special issue published online in the open access journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) from 2017 to 2018 (available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Smart_Cities)." -- Title page verso.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Edited volumes
;
Case studies
