社会科学 | SCI期刊专刊信息2条

全文截稿: 2021-08-30

影响因子: 4.624

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 结构与建筑技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 3区

• 小类 : 绿色可持续发展技术 - 3区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-cities-and-society

Sustainable cities and society have the capacity to transform the social and economic fabric of nations. For eras, cities have been at the heart of thriving businesses and innovative ideas and are responsible for the bulk of production and consumption around the world. Meeting the production and consumption needs of urban populations in terms of healthcare, energy, industry and transport is putting severe strain on rural and urban ecosystems. Many cities are already struggling with environmental degradation, traffic congestion, inadequate urban infrastructure, and lack of smart governance. Maintaining economic growth, while creating sustainable cities and a society for all, is the greatest challenge facing in the ear of digital world.

Recently, the rapid growth of emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) has shown the ability to tackle problems and challenges in all aspects of the sustainable development ecosystem. ICT is an amazing revolution that allows information to be shared between communication technology platforms. It facilitates to improve accessibility and inclusiveness for the transmission, distribution, delivery and reception of information. For instance, in the development of energy power grids, ICTs have become important for reducing energy consumption, CO2 emission levels and increasing efficiency.

Meanwhile, Blockchain is one of the technologies made possible by the global distribution of computing capacity. The power of blockchain therefore does not lie in the technology itself, but rather in the way it has reframed many discussions in different parts of our society and economy. Blockchain technology shows that there are options, that we can organize society differently. On the other hand, the Green Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging field that has attracted a lot of attention from researchers and industries, as it provides energy efficient services and enables the production and use of renewable energy. An important limitation of IoT devices in urban computing is powered by finite battery capacity because when IoT devices communicate with each other, large amount of energy is consumed due to which devices operate for limited duration only, as long as battery lasts. Then energy management in IoT devices helps available energy harvesting components. Due to the heterogeneity and variability of energy harvesting sustainable urban computing in IoT, it should be evaluated using evolutionary algorithms and predictive methods to ensure their dependability, correctness and safety. The integration of blockchain technology and IoT has become a highly adoptable technology for developing sustainable smart cities and is attracting considerable interest from energy supply companies, start-ups, financial institutions, governments and researchers.

Developing sustainable cities and society to use smart ICTs in an inclusive way requires proper planning and development. At all stages of the smart cities and society planning process, a wide variety of stakeholders with appropriate feedback mechanisms need to be involved so that these technologies can be updated to meet the evolving needs of city dwellers. Our actions destroy habitats and endanger the lives of future generations in which we must take steps to protect ourselves and the environment. Green governance practices and the adoption of emerging technologies are essential to achieve the goals of building sustainable smart cities. The objective of this special issue is to explore new frontiers, research gaps and challenges in the field of green governance, green IoT, green industry, green computing, green finance, including the optimal use and management of energy resources, applications and services for sustainable smart cities.

The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to

Blockchain technology towards green IoT

Adoptions of emerging technologies in green computing

Green governance framework for sustainable development

Energy efficiency and greenhouse emission control in sustainable smart cities

Sustainable business strategies for sustainable cities and society

Taxonomy of green governance for sustainable cities and society

Empirical analysis to reduce CO2 footprint for sustainable cities and society

Security and privacy techniques in sustainable smart city

Self-learning adaptive networking architecture

Artificial intelligence for edge computing green IoT network

Light weight consensus protocol for green finance and industry

Integration of secure solutions for sustainable commuting infrastructure

Fog/Edge-enabled green computing for smart city

Light weight deep learning algorithms for smart city healthcare

Sustainable urban energy management in IoT smart city

Energy efficient smart transportation on sustainable urban computing

Urban mobility and routing protocols for energy harvesting solutions in IoT

Formal verification and modelling on smart grid and sustainable urban energy distributions

全文截稿: 2021-09-15

影响因子: 4.624

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 结构与建筑技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 3区

• 小类 : 绿色可持续发展技术 - 3区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-cities-and-society

Many cities and communities are under severe challenges of urban heat, compounding results of climate change and urban heat islands. The urban heat does not only threaten urban ecosystems and human health but also lead to significant economic and social consequences. The urban heat problem is projected to be further aggravated with the ongoing climate change and urbanization. Therefore, it is the high time to create cool cities and communities. For this, it requires extensive efforts in the identification and assessment of heat-related threats and risks, the development of heat mitigation and adaption techniques and strategies, the application of heat mitigation and adaption techniques and strategies, and then the assessment of their heat mitigation and adaption performance for future improvement. Nevertheless, such processes are also affected by various factors such as the feasibility and suitability of techniques and strategies, citizens’ awareness, attitudes and preferences, governmental policy and regulations, and economic and technological levels.