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The climate crisis is hitting around the world, including in the Middle East and its cities. Urban regions are exposed to increasingly frequent heat waves and floods that leave decision makers without immediate answers. In the context of this global crisis, this book addresses the need for a better understanding of the current model of urban expansion. Cities are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but they are also celebrated for their contribution to economic growth. The current moment is one of a large paradigm shift as climate change is now recognized as a legitimate public problem. This is especially true for city dwellers, who are increasingly exposed to climate change, the loss of biodiversity and heavy pollution while natural breathing spaces continue to shrink around them. The sixteen chapters of this book do not offer any off-the-rack or technical solutions, but they analyze the urban conundrum and the contribution of cities to the climate crisis. Some chapters focus on individual car ownership, land privatization, waste management and land use changes under the guise of development. Others explore local and contextual answers to urban governance issues. With the support of CEDEJ and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, researchers, experts and civil society actors explore the ongoing transformations of Middle Eastern urban environments and mobilities and question them in relation to the climate crisis. The contributions are based on empirical knowledge gathered in the Nile Delta, the Greater Cairo Region, Riyadh and Beirut. Without concessions to mainstream thinking, this book contributes to a better understanding of urban challenges, climate threats and policy responses in contexts marked by growing environmental inequalities.

Economics --- Environmental Studies --- climate change --- air pollution --- anthropocene --- sustainable mobility --- waste --- cities in transition --- architecture and rehabilitation --- urban expansions --- urban development challenges --- social and ecological justice --- nature-based solutions --- urban governance

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This book compiles relevant expanded versions of the best articles presented at the Second Ibero-American Congress of Smart Cities (ICSC-CITIES 2019), published in the Special Issue “Mobility and IoT for the Smart Cities” in Smart Cities, MDPI. This book includes articles on urban mobility, as well as on integrated sensors in cities, two relevant subjects related to the development of modern smart cities moving towards sustainability.

Smart Cities --- inclusive transport --- smart bus stops --- mobility systems --- interconnected public spaces --- air pollution --- noise pollution --- low emissions zone --- pedestrianization --- sustainable mobility --- public transportation --- smart cities --- mobility plan --- railway --- Hyperloop --- power supply --- energy storage --- power electronics --- supercapacitors --- research network --- energy efficiency --- sustainability --- mobility --- IoT

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The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of sharing in urban environments and under daily dynamics are underexplored. This Special Issue aims to address if and how sharing shapes cities, the way that spaces are designed and lived in if social interactions are escalated, and the ways that habits and routines take place in post-individualistic society. In particular, the following key questions are of primary interest: Urban fabric: How is ‘sharing’ shaping cities? Does it represent a paradigm shift with tangible and physical reverberations on urban form? How are shared mobility, work, inhabiting reconfiguring the urban and social fabric? Social practices: Are new lifestyles and practices related to sharing changing the use and design of spaces? To what extent is sharing triggering a production and consumption paradigm shift to be reflected in urban arrangements and infrastructures? Sustainability: Does sharing increase the intensity of use of space and assets, or, rather, does it increase them to meet the expectations of convenience for urban lifestyles? To what extent are these phenomena fostering more economically-, socially-, and environmentally-sustainable practices and cities? Policy: How can policy makers and municipalities interact with these bottom-up and phenomena and grassroots innovation to create more sustainable cities? Scholars responded to the above questions from the fields of urban studies, urban planning and design, sociology, geography, theoretically-grounded and informed by the results of fieldwork activities.

Airbnb and policy innovation --- n/a --- accessibility --- Airbnb and housing typologies --- informality --- Melbourne sharing economy --- bike sharing --- local communities --- Airbnb and planning --- Airbnb and domestic design --- mobility policy --- platform cooperativism --- urban regeneration --- Airbnb and governance --- emotions --- democratic quality --- sharing --- urban studies --- stress levels --- sharing platform --- digital participation --- social relations --- spatial agency --- critical autoethnography --- cohousing --- collaborative workplaces --- participation --- Bourdieu --- co-design --- coworking --- entrepreneurial action --- coworking spaces --- Melbourne Airbnb --- coworking business --- collaborative economy --- design-research --- sustainable mobility --- urban mobility --- architecture --- architectural and urban effects of Airbnb --- ageing --- physiological sensors --- GSR --- sharing economic --- social street --- matchmaking --- socio-spatial effects of Airbnb --- sharing economy --- urban --- galvanic skin response --- coproduction --- coworking space --- emotional layer

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This Special Issue is dedicated to sustainable mobility and transport, with a special focus on technological advancements. Global transport systems are significant sources of air, land, and water emissions. A key motivator for this Special Issue was the diversity and complexity of mitigating transport emissions and industry adaptions towards increasingly stricter regulation. Originally, the Special Issue called for papers devoted to all forms of mobility and transports. The papers published in this Special Issue cover a wide range of topics, aiming to increase understanding of the impacts and effects of mobility and transport in working towards sustainability, where most studies place technological innovations at the heart of the matter. The goal of the Special Issue is to present research that focuses, on the one hand, on the challenges and obstacles on a system-level decision making of clean mobility, and on the other, on indirect effects caused by these changes.

Film, TV & radio --- shared mobility --- piezoelectric --- energy harvesting --- two-wheelers --- smart city --- business models --- regulation --- logistics --- supply chains --- Finland --- Russia --- high-speed railway --- income gap --- club convergence --- nonlinear time-varying factor model --- research review --- trucks --- emission --- regulations --- modal choice --- sustainable mobility --- Mallorca mobility --- logistic regression --- transport planning --- transport --- sustainability --- mobility --- simulation --- life cycle analysis --- passenger car --- environmental impact --- hybrid electric vehicle --- battery electric vehicle --- electric vehicle policy --- electric vehicle incentives --- charging infrastructure --- green transport strategy --- Gauteng province --- mobile-energy-as-a-service (MEaaS) --- mobile energy --- urban electromobility --- electric vehicle --- renewable energy resource --- bidirectional electric vehicle charging --- natural language processing (NLP) --- topic modelling --- BERT --- transportation --- newspaper --- magazine --- academic research --- journalism --- deep learning --- smart cities

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This Special Issue is entitled “Environmental Sustainability in Maritime Infrastructures”. Oceans and coastal areas are essential in our lives from several different points of view: social, economic, and health. Given the importance of these areas for human life, not only for the present but also for the future, it is necessary to plan future infrastructures, and maintain and adapt to the changes the existing ones. All of this taking into account the sustainability of our planet. A very significant percentage of the world's population lives permanently or enjoys their vacation periods in coastal zones, which makes them very sensitive areas, with a very high economic value and as a focus of adverse effects on public health and ecosystems. Therefore, it is considered very relevant and of great interest to launch this Special Issue to cover any aspects related to the vulnerability of coastal systems and their inhabitants (water pollution, coastal flooding, climate change, overpopulation, urban planning, waste water, plastics at sea, effects on ecosystems, etc.), as well as the use of ocean resources (fisheries, energy, tourism areas, etc.).

Technology: general issues --- floating offshore wind --- concrete wind platform --- economic feasibility --- IRR --- NPV --- LCOE --- feasibility study --- offshore wind --- levelized cost of energy (LCOE) --- wave energy --- software --- EU ETS --- Emission allowances --- Greenhouse gas emissions --- Transparency --- Accounting regulation --- tidal current energy --- life cycle assessment --- ISO --- greenhouse gases emissions --- port infrastructure --- carbon footprint --- offshore waste disposal facility --- hazard analysis --- risk matrix --- subsystem --- environmental impact --- ocean renewable energy --- OTEC --- environmental and social impacts --- energy production --- renewable energy --- zero emissions port --- wave energy converter --- young mangroves --- mangrove restoration --- portable reef design --- field observation --- Amami Oshima --- geographic information system --- back-propagation neural network --- rainfall --- historical flood --- prediction --- formal planning --- informal planning --- spatial planning process --- coastal area spatial planning --- planning levels --- community involvement --- territorial community --- coastal communities --- coastal fisheries --- dry fish --- livelihood --- vulnerability --- AHP --- urban regeneration --- littoral landscape --- Mediterranean architecture --- sustainable mobility --- transport infrastructure --- greenway