Smart Cities as a Solution for Reducing Urban Waste and Pollution

This reference book is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it was edited by a well-known environmental scholar from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, providing essential research on the conceptualization and implementation of smart cities and related technologies within urban environments. This comprehensive publication brings together over 25 environmental experts from over ten countries, to provide methods on building urban environments that reduce waste and pollution, capture and manage large sets of environmental data, and integrating smart and knowledge-based systems. Smart Cities as a Solution for Reducing Urban Waste and Pollution examines emergent research on smart innovations within built urban environments. Featuring best practices and theoretical frameworks, as well as potential issues in the implementation of smart and green technology in urban settings, this publication is a vital reference source for graduate students, researchers, academics, engineers, architects, facility managers, and government officials.