Sustainability, Strategic Management, Smart Governance and Smart Cities: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 10076
Special Issue Editor
Interests: law; management; public administration; smart cities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept of smart cities represents a comprehensive approach to the functioning of urban regions and affects various social areas such as culture, infrastructure, the environment, energy, and social services. In each of these areas, it pursues multiple interconnected goals that, together, create a system based on the principles of sustainable development. The entire systems consists of public administration, private sector, and civil society entities, without which the set goals would not be achieved. For these reasons, there is no international legally binding definition for the given concept or legal framework to precisely regulate the procedure for achieving these goals. Individual states follow their own "smart" concepts and methodologies, which are in line with global documents dealing with the above issue. In addition, the complexity of the smart city concept, combined with complicated urban problems and the pursuit of sustainable solutions, makes it a challenging task. Therefore, smart city policies must be strategically focused on a smart economy, a smart environment, smart management, smart housing, smart mobility, and smart people. Smart city strategies should also focus on institutional changes to provide context-sensitive outcomes in local urban areas. This may include changing the structure of smart policy creation to a bottom-up, community-based approach rather than one that begins within institutions and industries.
In this Special Issue, we aim to publish innovative multidisciplinary work on current trends and perspectives in strategic management, innovation implementation, working models, and best practices that could improve the environment, the economy, and social well-being in smart cities and territories. We are particularly interested in advances in governance models, simulation methods and data analysis, forecasting techniques, scenario planning, future designs, and complex system models that could contribute to improving critical thinking and decision-making in urban and territorial resilience and sustainable development.
Smart cities are more efficient, provide more opportunities for job creation, and ensure growth while also improving the social inclusion and engagement of residents. Increases in the level of functionality, long-term sustainability, and standard of living for residents in smart cities can be achieved through the creation of effective, targeted, and sustainable smart city strategies.
Prof. Dr. Tomáš Peráček
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart city
- strategy
- sustainability
- innovation
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