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Smart and Sustainable Cities in the MENA Countries: Combining Sustainable Growth and Climate Adaption?

In: CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT

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  • Jan Friesen
  • Marc Ringel

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Cities and urban areas will play an increasing role in mitigating and adapting to global warming. Combining this role with the overall concept of smart city development can lead to solutions that deliver on economic growth and climate protection at the same time. Our contribution aims to analyze the combination of economic, technological, and climate action in smart city projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We focus on five MENA cities and juxtapose these to a comparison group of European cities with the aim to put our assessment results into an international perspective. We apply a staged methodology of analyzing external factors based on the Global Human Settlement (GHS) dataset and on an internal assessment by means of surveys in which representatives of cities responsible for smart city activities were interviewed…

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  • Jan Friesen & Marc Ringel, 2021. "Smart and Sustainable Cities in the MENA Countries: Combining Sustainable Growth and Climate Adaption?," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Anil Markandya & Dirk Rübbelke (ed.), CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT, chapter 11, pages 345-365, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Climate Change; Global Warming; Sustainable Development; Development; Economic Growth; Adaptation; Paris Agreement; Social Conflict; Extreme Events; Integrated Assessment Model; Climate-Economic Liveability; Sustainable Development Goals; Social Welfare Functions; Intergenerational Transfers; Water Scarcity; Natural Resources; Migration; Climate-Migration Relationship; MENA Region; Renewable Energy; ICT; Energy Efficiency; Carbon Dioxide Removal; Net Negative Emissions; Co-Benefits; Afforestation; Reforestation; Mangroves; Developing Countries; Blue Carbon Projects; Ecosystems; Blockchain Technology; Illegal Logging; Mining Industries; Power Plants; Environmental Economics; Resource Economics; Climate Change Economics; Climate Policy; Mitigation;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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