Cities play a vital role in tackling sustainability challenges. Smart cities have emerged as
solutions to urban sustainability. However, whether smart city practices lead to …

Cities have grown in development and sophistication throughout human history. Smart cities
are the current incarnation of this process, with increased complexity and social importance …

As a locus of technological innovation, a smart city (SC) is a prototypical city of the future.
Moreover, according to scholars, a smart city is also sustainable city. Nonetheless, the …

This study delves into the pivotal role that indicators play in designing, assessing, and
guiding policies for sustainable urban development. Indicators, encompassing both …

Sustainability challenges can be faced at local, urban and national scale leading to diverse
initiatives constrained mainly by economic and cultural limits. Of these three levels, the local …

Although the citizens' sense of gain (CSG) has become a vital standard reflecting the people-
centric concept, taking into account both objective material gain and subjective spiritual …

With the intensification of urbanization, the application of contemporary technology to make
cities smarter is the key to their sustainable development (SD). This study proposes a …

The rising concentration of carbon in the atmosphere leads to increasing climate change,
and it has become a worldwide consensus to reduce emissions. Considering the degree of …

Massive carbon emissions resulting from global urbanization have been one of the main
triggers of climate warming. Because of its scale and representativeness, China's …

The present article aims to compare sustainability maturity results among ten agri-food
industries located in Brazil and Kenya. Integrated nexus analyses are missing from previous …