Smart Sustainable Islands vs Smart Sustainable Cities

Abstract

Remote sensing/Road design and Applications using Technology/Transport engineering on Earth and Space), ABSTRACT:This paper has several aims: a) the presentation of a critical analysis of the terms "smart sustainable cities" and "smart sustainable islands" b) the presentation of a number of principles towards to the development methodological framework of concepts and actions, in a form of a manual and actions guide, for the smartification and sustainability of islands. This kind of master plan is divided in thematic sectors (key factors) which concern the insular municipalities c) the creation of an island's smartification and sustainability index d) the first steps towards the creation of a portal for the presentation of our smartification actions manual, together with relative resources, smart applications examples, and, in the near future the first results of our index application in a number of Greek islands and e) the presentation of some proposals of possible actions towards their sustainable development and smartification for the municipalities -islands of Paros and Antiparos in Greece, as case studies.

A Database System for Smart Sustainable Islands Index Application

“…The KPI wheel published by the authors of the current work in 2018 [Pantazis et al, 2018], is in accordance with the guidelines of the aforementioned UN initiative. The initiative also proposed a KPI naming & numbering convention which will be followed in our present work.…”

“…Our KPI wheel is shown in Figure 1, and its main five major categories clearly correspond to the three UN main directions, i.e., Economy (Economy ICT & Infrastructure), Environment (Resources) and Society & Culture (Quality of Life & Society) Figure 1. The KPI Wheel proposed by the authors [Pantazis et al, 2018], that also corresponds to the three UN main directions (in Bold).…”

“…In our work we followed the EU "smart island" initiative key factors: energy, transport, water, waste, governance, ICT and economy, and we developed a sort of guidelines and a start point for island's sustainable smartification [Pantazis et al, 2018]. In that earlier work it is also noted that an island constitutes an autonomous entity that must be seen and considered in a holistic way.…”

Fostering and Planning a Smart Governance Strategy for Evaluating the Urban Polarities of the Sardinian Island (Italy)

“…This legislative revision shows the lack of a smart governance framework without giving general guidelines for island regions, as well as place-based strategies or policies able to solve problems of these territories with their daily habits. Namely, literature shows only specific case studies, by using, for instance, a minor island as a case study, or by giving the general characteristics of what a smart Island should be [35,36], or trying to define what a smart island is [16,17,37], or by applying the concept of smart governance in limited portions of territory [38,39]. Other studies associate the smart governance of an island with the use and impact of new information and communication technologies (ICT) [40], the effects of e-government development on environmental sustainability [41][42][43], or on urban sustainability [44].…”

The CO.TR.I.S System: Towards a Smarter Coastal Transport Network for Smart Islands

“…The particularities of the "smartification" of an island are related to its geographic characteristics, the isolation, the coastal lines, the tourism, the infrastructure, the transport of goods, the medical care, the education, the limited economic possibilities, etc. (Pantazis, 2017) Following the EU initiative "smart island", the key factors are energy, transport, water, waste, governance, ICT, and economy. Some "special key factors" may be added in some islands, e.g., refugees.…”