TY - GEN N2 - This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches, methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e- ) planning and (e- )participation; smart data management to facilitate decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure, tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-54558-5 DO - doi AB - This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches, methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e- ) planning and (e- )participation; smart data management to facilitate decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure, tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. T1 - Smart cities in the Mediterranean :coping with sustainability objectives in small and medium-sized cities and island communities / AU - Stratigea, Anastasia, AU - Kyriakides, Elias, AU - Nicolaides, Chrysses, CN - HT169.E8 ID - 807041 KW - Business. KW - Industrial management KW - Information technology. KW - Business KW - Regional planning. KW - City planning. KW - Architecture. KW - Sustainable development. SN - 9783319545585 SN - 3319545582 TI - Smart cities in the Mediterranean :coping with sustainability objectives in small and medium-sized cities and island communities / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-54558-5 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-54558-5 ER -