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Title	Smart And Sustainable Cities In The Mena Countries: Combining Sustainable Growth And Climate Adaption?
ID_Doc	49146
Authors	Friesen J.; Ringel M.
Year	2021
Published	Climate and Development
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789811240553_0011
Abstract	Cities and urban areas will play an increasing role in mitigating and adapting to global warming. Combining this role with the overall concept of smart city development can lead to solutions that deliver on economic growth and climate protection at the same time. Our contribution aims to analyze the combination of economic, technological, and climate action in smart city projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We focus on five MENA cities and juxtapose these to a comparison group of European cities with the aim to put our assessment results into an international perspective. We apply a staged methodology of analyzing external factors based on the Global Human Settlement (GHS) dataset and on an internal assessment by means of surveys in which representatives of cities responsible for smart city activities were interviewed. We find that regional context plays a clear role in the design and the governance of many of these projects. Whereas we can identify some interplay between the contextual factors, we need to stress that these are not one-to-one relationships: Usually, multi-factor causalities prevail. Governance of smart city projects is a pivotal aspect, which deserves further examination. ©2022 World Scientific Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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