Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions

by John R. Vacca (Editor)

Overview

Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions is the definitive professional reference for harnessing the full potential of policy making and financial planning in smart cities. It covers the effective tools for capturing the dynamic relations between people, policies, financing, and environments, and where they are most often useful and effective for all relevant stakeholders. The book examines the key role of science, technology, and innovation (STI) - especially in information and communications technologies - in the design, development, and management of smart cities policies and financing. It identifies the problems and offers practical solutions in implementation of smart infrastructure policies and financing. Smart Cities Policies and Financing is also about how the implementation of smart infrastructure projects (related to the challenges of the lack of financing and the application of suitable policies) underlines the key roles of science, technology and innovation (STI) communities in addressing these challenges and provides key policies and financing that will help guide the design and development of smart cities. - Brings together experts from academia, government and industry to offer state-of- the-art solutions for improving the lives of billions of people in cities around the globe - Creates awareness among governments of the various policy tools available, such as output-based contracting, public-private partnerships, procurement policies, long-term contracting, and targeted research funds in order to promote smart infrastructure implementation, and encouraging the use of such tools to shape markets for smart infrastructure and correct market failures - Ensures the insclusiveness of smart city projects by adequately addressing the special needs of marginalized sections of society including the elderly, persons with disabilities, and inhabitants of informal settlements and informal sectors - Ensures gender considerations in the design of smart cities and infrastructure through the use of data generated by smart systems to make cities safer and more responsive to the needs of women - Demonstrate practical implementation through real-life case studies - Enhances reader comprehension using learning aids such as hands-on exercises, checklists, chapter summaries, review questions, and an extensive appendix of additional resources

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128191316
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	01/19/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	640
File size:	183 MB
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About the Author

John Vacca is an independent information technology consultant and researcher, professional writer, editor, reviewer, and author based in Pomeroy, Ohio, USA. Since 1982, John has authored, edited, and published more than 85 books, including Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions, Elsevier; Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies: Handbook on Planning, Design, Development, and Regulation, Elsevier; Online Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment, and Radicalization, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Nanoscale Networking and Communications Handbook, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Handbook of Sensor Networking: Advanced Technologies and Applications, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Network and System Security 2/e, Elsevier/Syngress; Cyber Security and IT Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier/Syngress; and Managing Information Security 2/e, Elsevier/Syngress; among many others. John was a Configuration Management Specialist, Computer Specialist, and the Computer Security Official (CSO) for NASA’s space station program (Freedom) and the International Space Station Program from 1988 until his retirement from NASA in 1995. John has also been a security consultant for major motion pictures, including AntiTrust, Collateral, and Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story. He received his M.Sc. from Kansas State University and an MBA from Emporia State University and served in the United States Air Force from 1967-1971.

Table of Contents

Part I: Overview of Urbanization Policies and Financial Trends: A Comprehensive Introduction1. Introduction to industry 4.0: smart cities policies and financingAmir Hooshang Fakhimi, Mojtaba Nazarzadeh Dehbozorgi and Javad Majrouhi Sardroud Part II: Implementing Smart Infrastructure: Some Key Challenges and Science, Technology and Innovation-Driven Policy and Financial Instruments2. The need to localize smart infrastructure policies and financingLouis Burns3. Revolutionizing the localization of smart city infrastructure policies and financingMichela Longo and Wahiba Yaici4. Harnessing the local innovation system: an overarching solution for policy and financing instruments for promoting the localization of smart infrastructureMichela Longo and Wahiba Yaici5. Smart counties: technologies, considerations, characteristics, challenges, policies, and theoretical concernsEvan Evangelopoulos6. From community plan to clean energy infrastructure: policy, partnership, and investmentChris Castro and R. Bruce Stephenson7. Energy efficiency in urban planning for smart cities in the developing worldDoaa M. El-Sherif8. Transportation policies for connected and automated mobility in smart citiesMizanur Rahman, Steven Polunsky and Steven Jones9. Publiceprivate-partnerships (PPP) enabled smart city funding and financingAli Mohammad Mirzaee and Javad Majrouhi Sardroud Part III: Human Resources Skills Gaps10. Preparing students for interdisciplinary work: green infrastructure curricula at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSheila Boudreau, Gareth Gransaull, Nina-Marie Lister and Gary Pritchard11. Teaching sustainability in metro Orlando: the evolution of the pragmatic liberal arts at Rollins collegeR. Bruce Stephenson12. Partnering with technology firms to train smart city workforcesNeena Pahuja13. Training professional smart city workforces through a partnership with technology firmsTuncay Ercan and Mahir Kutay14. Training smart city workforces with a wide range of electronic and digital technologiesDoaa M. El-Sherif and Essam E. Khalil Part IV: Lack of Financing and Well-Developed Business Models15. Digitization, automation, operation, and monetization: the changing management of sidewalk and kerb 2000e25Alanna Coombes and Bern Grush16. Digitization, automation, operation, and monetization: standardizing the management of sidewalk and kerb 2025e50Bern Grush and Alanna Coombes17. Innovative smart applications for solid waste managementEssam E. Khalil and Doaa M. El-Sherif18. Digital infrastructure policies for data security and privacy in smart citiesSabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Giovanni Livraga and Pierangela Samarati19. Financing smart citiesdan Indian case studyPrasun Kamal Agrawal and Bipin Pradeep Kuma Part V: Governance: Balancing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policy Approaches20. Policy instruments for facilitating smart city governance by promoting platforms for bottom-up participatory governanceLidia Mierzejewska and Magdalena Wdowicka21. Promoting platforms for bottom-up participatory governance: a policy instrument approach through the facilitation of strategic smart city governanceCarles Agustí i Hernàndez22. Policy instruments for facilitating smart city governanceDoaa M. El-Sherif and Essam E. Khalil Part VI: Designing Inclusive Smart Cities Policy Instruments23. Provide affordable smart infrastructure policy applications for informal sectorsV. Padmavathi and K. Aruna24. Customizable service level agreement (SLA) generator platform using FCAPS management to enhance Quality of Experience (QoE) on Internet of Things (IoT)Cathryn Peoples, Adrian Moore, Mohammad Zoualfaghari, Parag Kulkarni and Mamun Abu-Tair25. Effective value capturing of mobility and public transportation through efficient urban planningRitu Mohanty-Padora and Bipin Pradeep Kumar Part VII: Smart Infrastructure Design Principles and Financial Policy Approaches26. Urban design strategies and the smart city paradigmMallory B.E. Baches27.

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The definitive resource on the design, development, and implementation of smart cities policies and financing