Our planet is nowadays confronted with major challenges, such as the severe climate change impacts, the escalating urbanization rates, the loss of biodiversity, the intensifying resource scarcity, the upsurge in migratory flows, to name a few.
The Mediterranean Region constitutes a hotspot in most of the aforementioned respects, with unpredicted repercussions with regard to its future sustainability perspective. Undesirable trends and related risks call for trend-breaking endeavors targeting sustainability, i.e. decrease of the ecological footprint of the Mediterranean settlements, reverse of economic recession and pursuance of resilient, livable and prosperous MED localities for the current and future generations.
The main goal of the 4th SmartBlueCity Conference is to continue the efforts of the Smart Cities Mediterranean Cluster for: strengthening inter- and cross-disciplinary interaction among various actors (policy makers, stakeholders and citizens’ communities, scientists, etc.) around common objectives, research topics, policy concerns; and gathering glocal (global-local) intelligence in order to best inform policy decisions towards smart, sustainable, resilient, safe and carbon-neutral futures of the Mediterranean territories… more
