The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures
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帕尔格雷夫城市和区域未来百科全书
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_268-1
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发表时间:
2020
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Krivtsov V
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Krivtsov V
The UN estimates suggest that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050 (UN 2018a). It is also expected that by that time, 90% of population growth, 80% of the increase in wealth, and approximately 60% of energy consumption will occur in the urban areas which will leave sustainability, environmental protection, and natural resource management challenges in the developing countries and emerging economies across the world (UN 2018b). Though the urbanization in developing world is increasing at an unprecedented speed, it throws enormous challenges, such as social vulnerability, pollution, inequality, environmental degradation, foodwater-energy insecurity for growing population, and degrades the quality of life to a large extent (Ellis and Roberts 2016). Urban environmental degradation, pollution, poverty, high population growth, inequality, poor water and sanitation system, deforestation, inappropriate land use, natural disaster, and urban heat island effect are the common challenges around the world (Arfanuzzaman and Dahiya 2019; Ellis and Roberts 2016; Jacobs et al. 2019) which can be largely mitigated through big data-driven smart city (Bibri 2019a; UN 2015a, 2016). As increasing population growth and built up causing to debase the urban water sources, tree covers, open spaces, and clean air as well as quality of life of the inhabitants, big data applications can provide low-cost and efficient solutions in solving pressing urban environmental problems (ie, resource conservation, environmental protection, and natural resource monitoring)(Dubey et al. 2017; Graham and Shelton 2013; Dumbill 2013). Besides, big data