Smart Cities as Future Internet-Based Developments that Adapt to Climate Change and Which Green the Intellectual Capital of Urban and Regional Innovation Systems

Deakin, Mark; Reid, Alasdair

Abstract

Many in the academic community find claims made about the virtuous nature of smart cities dumbfounding. In that sense left not only bewildered by the claims which academics make about the virtues of smart cities, but the audacious nature of the expectations advocates of them as developments based on the future internet also harbour. In surveying the foundations of smart cities as developments based on the future internet, this paper shall address the bewilderment over the claims made about the virtues of smart cities by academics and audacious nature of the expectations the IEA, IRENA, UN, WB and WHO now also harbour of them as developments based on the future internet. In rendering both the virtues of smart cities and audacious nature of them as future internet-based developments, the paper shall reveal how cities can be smart in developing the future internet as a basis to meet the social challenge adapting to climate change poses. This shall go some way to close a gap that has opened in the past decade over the foundations of smart cities by reporting on the results of a case-study into the metrics of future internet-based developments. Those metrics that provide smart cities with a system of measurements which link the informatics of digital technologies to data management platforms and connect the infrastructures of future internet-based developments to the management of natural resources. To the management of natural resources as environments that in turn relate the energetic of climate change adaptation strategies to a metabolic which serves to green the intellectual capital of urban and regional innovation systems. Green the intellectual capital of urban and regional innovation systems and qualify whether in meeting the social challenge SDG7 poses this keeps 1.5 alive.

Citation

Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2023, July). Smart Cities as Future Internet-Based Developments that Adapt to Climate Change and Which Green the Intellectual Capital of Urban and Regional Innovation Systems. Presented at 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
• Start Date: Jul 23, 2023
• End Date: Jul 28, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Nov 18, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 8, 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 467-480
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 14057
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023
• ISBN: 978-3-031-48046-1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48047-8_31
• Keywords: Smart cities, Metrics, Future internet-based developments, Social challenges, Climate change adaptation strategies, Intellectual capital, Greening intellectual capital, Urban and regional innovation systems
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3535067