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| Title | Smart Cities And Technological Innovations Towards Disaster Resilience |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 49413 |
| Authors | Singh A. |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | International Handbook of Disaster Research |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8388-7_222 |
| Abstract | The idea of smart cities emerged from a global concern for capacity enhancement of existing cities and their quest for sustainability of resource use for the rising urban population. The demand for essential services has been going beyond the carrying capacity of city’s available infrastructural ability to deliver. Urban areas bear disproportionate load of providing electricity, water, banking, housing, health, food, transport, and other support systems. Any scarcity or nonavailability of these resources increases vulnerability of citizens to varieties of disasters. While resilience building against disruptions of basic supplies remains the central objective of smart cities, there is no denying the fact that smart cities create technology determined spaces, which overlook inclusivity, justice, and equity. The management of enormous flow of data is expected to enable city managers to plan, provide, and adapt to contingencies of modern urban lives but it does not at any point indicate that the critical infrastructure would prioritize these democratic principles over which sustainability is built. This culminates into unreliable and uncommitted disaster preparedness with high possibility of divisive and exclusionary tendencies such as racism, speciesism, casteism, and prejudiced sexual orientations within which takes place an exclusion of poor, disabled, women, and weaker species who have no resources to control technology. Three questions become pertinent for any researcher on disaster management: first, what is the connect of smart city concept with disaster management? Second, is there greater resilience against disasters in a smart city? Third, which cities would be “smart enough” for disaster prevention? © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023. |
| Author Keywords | Contingencies; Critical infrastructure; Resilience; Speciesism |
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