Dear Colleagues:

Nowadays, urban areas need to face immense a wide range of challenges related to climate change adaptation, sustainable waste management, affordable, reliable and modern energy and sustainable transport and mobility. The concept of ‘smart cities’ is an adequate response in addressing these challenges. Smart City 3.0 concept is the framework in which global challenges can be anticipated, defined and managed so that urban sustainability can be achieved and preserved in the context of climate change.

A smart city is an inclusive and optimized urban area for sustainable economic activity, efficient energy consumption and positive environmental impacts, where stakeholders and citizens are strongly involved in social activity that affects the development of urban communities and helps them to cope with the previously mentioned challenges. A key aspect here is the use of new information technologies, focusing on the implementation of urban sustainability 2.0. and providing new ways of seeing, experiencing and understanding the city.

The main aim of this special issue is to understand how the smart city concept affect the strategies and practices in sustainable urban planning within climate change framework.

This topic will be of interest to scholars who deal with smart and sustainable cities, urban governance and policy-making, transformational cities, urban planning management, climate changes, urban sustainability, urban land-use, as well as managing the synergies and trade-offs these concepts and not only.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

-              Climate change adaptation

-              Climate change impact on urban areas

-              Smart City 3.0

-              Sustainable smart cities

-              Remote sensing technologies for urban areas

-              Urban communities

-              Urban land-use management

-              Urban planning models

-              Urban societal challenges

-              Urban sustainability 2.0

-              Urban geo-informatics

-              Geo-informatics for urban planning

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir
Dr. Anca Maria Moscovici
Guest Editors

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