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Smart and Sustainable Technology for Resilient Cities and Communities, Hardback Book

Smart and Sustainable Technology for Resilient Cities and Communities Hardback

Edited by Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, John R. Littlewood, Marius M. Balas

Part of the Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology series

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This book is a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the KES Covid-19 Challenge international summit.

The book focusses on technological, economic, and social developments to combat the effects of global and local disasters as well as the ways in which the recovery from Covid can be used to build more resilient and sustainable communities, industry, and improve the environment.

It also discusses the global challenges of human-influenced climate change.

There are chapters on making cities and communities more resilient through energy self-sufficiency, food production, resilient housing and buildings, human health and intelligent systems e.g. for forecasting and prediction.

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