Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validation

Carvalho, João M. S.; Costa, Ricardo V.; Marnoto, Sandra; Vieira, José Carvalho; Sousa, C.A. Alves de

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“…Very early in the 21st century, Bowerman et al (2000) defined the term as a city that monitors and integrates information about all significant infrastructures with a view to optimize resource and activity usage while maximizing citizenoriented services. Since then, the smart city concept has evolved to include, for instance, innovation (Komninos, 2006), sustainability and quality of life (Carvalho et al, 2019) and interaction/governance issues (Eger, 2009).…”

Section: Smart Citiesmentioning

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“…Yet, concentration also poses mobility, pollution and marginality challenges-generating social inequality and negatively impacting urban areas (Chu et al, 2022). This situation underscores the need for city planners and managers to reflect on which economic/social/environmental policies and implementation strategies are most effective toward guaranteeing sustainability-hence, in terms of fostering quality of life for citizens (Carvalho et al, 2019); in other words, the need for CSR of public administrations and authorities.…”

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Smart innovations for sustainable cities: Insights from a public‐private innovation ecosystem

Cambra‐Fierro,

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Melero‐Polo

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Over‐urbanization poses important challenges—both for citizen well‐being and quality of life, and for the sustainability of our planet. Traffic, accidents and pollution are just a few of the problems facing people living in cities. The need arises, then, to foster sustainable urban planning and management using, among other elements, smart solutions. In such a context, we would do well to reflect on effective economic, social, and environmental policies aimed at achieving sustainable cities and high quality of life for urban inhabitants. This article presents the most relevant aspects of the #eCity‐Sevilla project, a successful case of a sustainable public‐private innovation ecosystem. To this end, we take the Quintuple Helix Model as our reference, with a view to identify project stakeholders and better understand their relationships and objectives. Our data derives from secondary sources as well as from a set of in‐depth interviews with key informants. In the final section, the main theoretical and practical implications of our study are discussed.

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Section: Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart innovations for sustainable cities: Insights from a public‐private innovation ecosystem

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Melero‐Polo

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“…The "trickle-drop effect" and "siphon effect" of the central city to the surrounding cities are also limited by the urban primacy [64,65]. Ding X.H.…”

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Study on Urbanization Level, Urban Primacy and Industrial Water Utilization Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Ding

Jia

2019

Sustainability

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Considering the undesirable output, this paper adopted the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with the slack variable and super efficiency improvement, to measure industrial water utilization efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The paper also creatively introduces urbanization level and urban primacy into driver factors' estimation by stochastic and fixed Tobit models, exploring how urbanization characteristics affected the water utilization in regional industrial production. The results showed that industrial water efficiency has maintained an upward trend during the whole period, while most central and western provinces have shown a U-shaped trend of decreasing first and then rising. However, the industrial water utilization efficiency of central regions is the lowest, and the eastern regions are the highest, catching up with western regions. Utilization efficiency shows an overall convergence during the research period from 2005 to 2017. Regarding the factors' estimation, both population urbanization and land urbanization negatively affected industrial water utilization efficiency, particularly blind expansion and disorderly development. The urban primacy meant the unbalance of urbanization, which would lead to urban diseases and pollution transfer, while the effects of urban primacy depended on the urbanization level. However, the utilization efficiency of industrial water did not become better automatically along with urbanization development; therefore, the scale and speed of urbanization should be scientifically formulated. The effects of the level of economic development, the advanced industrial structure, and the level of foreign investment are significantly negative. rate has increased from 14.08% in 1978 to 58.28% in 2017. The average rate of water quality qualification was only 73.2% in 2017, while the rate of water quality qualification lower than Class III was 16.1% [2]. The Class III water was mainly suitable for centralized drinking water, fishing and swimming, while the water of Class IV was mainly for industrial production and was not suitable for direct human contact. The built-up urban area was 22,182 square kilometers in 2017 and had been doubled from 12,122 square kilometers in 2005. Urbanization is always accompanied by industrialization and the transfer of rural populations, which also leads to the continuously optimization of the allocation of production factors. However, the industry cluster, the rapid growth of the urban population and the rapid expansion of construction land are also likely to cause irreversible water resources crises and water environment problems [3]. Moreover, water management and allocation, apart from the current competing demands, such as industrial water, urban water supply, agricultural irrigation, and ecosystems preservation, will be further affected, mainly by demographic and climatic changes drivers that increase the stress on water resources [4].

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“…What kind of economic, social and environmental policies does our society need to offer a good QoL for people while ensuring the sustainability of our planet? All these raise a number of challenges and opportunities from a triple bottom‐line perspective: social, economic and environmental (Carvalho et al., 2018, 2019; Li et al., 2019; Macke et al, 2019; Pérez‐del‐Hoyo & Mora, 2019; Wolski & Wojcik, 2019).…”

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(Re)thinking smart in rural contexts: A multi‐country study

Cambra‐Fierro

Perez

2022

Growth and Change

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Interest in the concept of smart cities and the process of smartization has increased in recent years, as reflected in the number of studies published in academic journals. Research has offered multiple perspectives to understand the risks and challenges posed by the growing population in urban areas, highlighting plans and actions that need to be undertaken. In contrast to smart cities, smartization in rural areas has received only scarce attention, despite the beneficial effect that the transformation of rural areas could have for society. Smart villages face different issues such as depopulation and the need to attract young people if they are to survive. Consequently, we need to rethink the impact of technology and the overall idea of becoming “smart” in this context. Therefore, this paper aims to define “smart” in the context of rural areas. In terms of methodology, the research takes the Smart Rural 21 project as case study. The results consider related aspects of sustainability, governance, the role of technology and the need to use a strategic approach that ensures quality of life in rural areas.

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Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validation

Cited by 10 publications

References 46 publications

Smart innovations for sustainable cities: Insights from a public‐private innovation ecosystem

Smart innovations for sustainable cities: Insights from a public‐private innovation ecosystem

Study on Urbanization Level, Urban Primacy and Industrial Water Utilization Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

(Re)thinking smart in rural contexts: A multi‐country study

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