Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability (Paperback, 2023)

Section- I- Introduction: 1: Urbanism and Sustainable Development: A Dynamic Approach: Vasco Barbosa, Aldo Alvarez Risco.- Section-II -Urban and Smart Cities Land use Dynamics and Changing Biodiversity: 2: Problems of Habitat Destruction and Shrinkage of Wetlands, Change in Forest Cover: Nestor Asiamah,James Hayes.- 3: Resource Allocation, Depletion and Changing Urbanization and Future Smart Cities: Mohamed Elhoseny, Beata Wieteska-Rosiak.- 4: Urban and Smart Cities Changing Bio-diversity related to Water Scarcity and Flood using of geospatial technology- Case Study: Rostam Saberifar.- 5: Remote sensing and GIS-based study on Soil Erosion, Land Contamination, Land Degradation and Smart Cities: Narsimha Adimalla.- Section-III -Climate Change and Urban and Smart Cities Health and Waste Management: 6: Web-based Analysis of Air, and Water Pollution in Urabn and Smart Cities- Case Study: G.K. Panda, Sailesh Samanta.- 7: Smart Cities and Associates Solid Waste, Bio medical Waste, E-Waste issues and Management: Md. Atiqur Rahman,Jogesh Laishram.- 8: Smart Cities and Associated Problems of Temperature increase and heat island, Issues Related with Global Warming using spatial information: Abul Basar, Nils Ruther, Ashwani Tiwari.- Section-IV -Advances on Urbanism and Smart Cities Socio-Environmental Perspectives.- 9: Urban Population Growth, Urban Sprawl, Smart City and Associated Problems: Meysam Argany, Clement Chipenda.- 10: Artificial Intelligence and Urban Hazards, Smart City Environment and Societal impact: V.Kasthuri Thilagam,Uday Chatterjee, B. Chakraborty.- 11: Using Geospatial Application and Urban/Smart CityEnergy Conservation- Case study: Scott Berson, Jorge Cerda.- Section -V -Urban Environmental Management, Solutions, and Sustainable Smart Cities: 12: Urban Ecosystem Services, Environmental Planning, and Smart Cities Management: Jay Mittal, Madhuri Sharma.- 13: Smart Cities Urban Governance, Green Space and Policy Planning to Achieve Sustainability: Anthony Mushinge, V.Kasthuri Thilagam.- 14: Smart City Planning and Management and Internet of Things (IoT): Somnath Ghosal, V.R. Sumathi.- 15: Sustainable Smart City Planning, Innovation, and Management: Adekunle Olusola Adeyemo, R.M.K.Ratnayake.- 16: Future Strategy for Sustainable Smart Cities: Dinesh Kumar Kandaswamy, Ahmed Alhuseen, Amir Shakibamanesh.- Section-VI- Conclusions: 17: Concluding Chapter: Uday Chatterjee, Madhuri Sharma, Sushobhan Majumdar, Jay Mittal.