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Title	Energy, Human Activity, And Knowledge: Addressing Smart City Challenges
ID_Doc	23406
Authors	Darby S.J.
Year	2019
Published	Energy and Behaviour: Towards a Low Carbon Future
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818567-4.00010-7
Abstract	Cities emerge from interactions between people, technologies, and environment. Energy systems, similarly, are sociotechnical, developed and maintained by actors with different types of knowledge and skill. When ‘smart’ information and communication technologies (ICT) are introduced to cities, they open up new energy-related possibilities, risks, and uncertainties. This chapter discusses how we can begin to address challenges posed by the spread of ICT into everyday city life. It first considers city evolution and what a ‘smart city’ might offer in terms of management, environmental outcomes, and quality of life. Next, some relevant lessons from energy studies are reviewed. ICT-enabled energy systems in smart(er) cities offer new opportunities for decentralised energy but pose challenges about affordable energy services, security and privacy, control, accountability, and resilience. To achieve good environmental, energy, and social outcomes, we need to start from local characteristics and needs for energy services, actors, knowledge, and skills. © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords	Accountability; Control; Energy and behaviour; Energy poverty; Energy security; Energy services; Middle actors; Resilience; Smart energy; Social learning

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