Overview
- Discusses socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities
- Provides rigorous economic analysis and concrete policy frameworks
- Brings an international, multidisciplinary approach
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
Part of the book series: Studies in Energy, Resource and Environmental Economics (SEREE)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This is an open access book.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fateh Belaid is a Fellow at KAPSARC. Before joining KAPSARC, he was a full professor of economics at Lille Catholic University and director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research unit. Fateh has also held various positions at the French Scientific and Technical Center for Building and led multiple collaborative projects for the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and the European Commission. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, energy modeling, and econometrics. He has published widely on household energy consumption, energy-saving behaviors, individual preference and investment in energy efficiency, energy poverty, renewables, and energy policy. He received a habilitation for supervising doctoral research from Orléans University, a Ph.D. in Economics, an M.S. in Applied Economics & Decision Theory from Littoral University, and an engineering degree in statistics. His work has been published in journals including Ecological Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Economic Surveys, Energy Policy, and Environmental Management.
Anvita Arora is an architect and transport planner whose current areas of research at KAPSARC (Saudi Arabia) include smart cities, electric vehicles, and freight mobility. Before joining the Center in February 2018, she was the managing director and CEO of Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans), an incubator company of IIT Delhi, where she led over 40 applied research and planning projects for 10 years for clients ranging from city level and country level authorities to funding agencies including the UNEP, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and DFID. Anvita has been teaching transport planning in the Urban Design Department of the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi for the past 12 years and was visiting faculty at the TERI University, Delhi. She was also associated with the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP) at IIT Delhi,a Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Centre of Excellence, for nearly 12 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Smart Cities
Book Subtitle: Social and Environmental Challenges and Opportunities for Local Authorities
Editors: Fateh Belaïd, Anvita Arora
Series Title: Studies in Energy, Resource and Environmental Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35664-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35663-6Published: 02 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35666-7Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35664-3Published: 30 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-3409
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3417
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 388
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Public Policy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Science and Technology Studies