Overview
- Covers Social Sustainability, a rarely discussed and yet vital aspect of sustainable development
- Examines how urbanization has intensified sustainability problems, and offers technologically-driven solutions to mitigate the damage wrought to the environment, and our well-being
- Focuses on Smart Cities, melding engineering aspects, such as planning and construction, with human aspects, such as education and health-care
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Urbanisations and Social Sustainability
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Case Studies
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About this book
This book tackles the challenges posed by accelerating urbanization, and demystifies Social Sustainability, the least understood of all the different areas of sustainable development. The volume’s twin focus on these profoundly intertwined topics creates a nuanced and vitally important resource. Large migrations from rural areas to cities without appropriate planning and infrastructure improvements, including housing, education and health care optimization, have created significant challenges across the globe. The authors suggest technology-rich strategies to meet these challenges by careful application of data on population growth and movement to the planning, design, and construction of operational infrastructures that can sustainably support our increasingly rapid population growth.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Mohammad Dastbaz is the Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of Suffolk. Professor Dastbaz’s research work over recent years has been focused on the use and impact of emerging technologies in society, particularly learning, training and the development of “eGovernment.” Dr. Dastbaz has led EU and UK based funded research projects and has been the Symposium Chair of Multimedia Systems in IEEE’s Information Visualisation (IV) conference since 2002. He has over 50 refereed publications, including numerous journal paper articles, conference papers, book chapters and books on e-learning, eGovernment and the design and development of Multimedia Systems. Professor Dastbaz is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, UK’s Higher Education Academy, and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce as well as the professional member of ACM and IEEE’s computer society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability
Editors: Mohammad Dastbaz, Wim Naudé, Jamileh Manoochehri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74549-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74548-0Published: 20 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09018-0Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74549-7Published: 10 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Development, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)