Digital Technologies, Smart Cities, and the Environment: Digital Dreams and Broken Promises - Couverture rigide

Kuntsman, Adi; Xin, Liu

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1529237149 ISBN 13 : 9781529237146

Editeur : Bristol University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The concept of smart cities holds environmental promises: that digital technologies will reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and waste, and help address climate change.

Drawing on academic scholarship and two case studies from Manchester and Helsinki, this timely and accessible book examines what happens when these promises are broken, as they prioritise technological innovation rather than environmental care. The book reveals that smart cities' vision of sustainable digital future obfuscates the environmental harms and social injustices that digitisation inflicts. The framework of "broken promises", coined by the authors, centres environmental questions in analysing imaginaries and practices of smart cities.

This is a must read for anyone interested in the connections between digital technologies and environment justice.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Liu Xin is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Karlstad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529237149
• ISBN 13: 9781529237146
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible