Smart Spatial Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 5827
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Interests: geography; geographic information system; remote sensing; geospatial approaches; spatial planning; science–policy interface; land change science; environmental sustainability
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Interests: geography; GIScience; remote sensing; urban planning; urban data; sustainable cities
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Interests: sea level change; costal vulnerability and risk; climate change; geodesy and applications; geoid; land survey; hydrography
Interests: cadastre; volunteered geographic information; spatial data infrastructures; spatial modeling; geographic information systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Spatial planning can be defined as ‘smart’ if it responds efficiently to a wide range of interrelated urban sustainability challenges—such as climate change, public health emergencies, urban growth, decaying infrastructure, rising inequality and governance—which defy the resilience of urban areas and territories. Smart refers to the potential advantage that is obtained by using anticipatory knowledge to face the increasing complexity and intensity of growth stressors in urban areas, which comprise multiple temporal and spatial scales, a number of different agents and several regulatory frameworks. Moreover, smart spatial planning uses both participatory governance and a systems thinking-based view on circular economy and sustainability perspectives, to promote (1) sustainable economy, (2) prosperity and (3) a wise environmental management.
To achieve future resilience, it is important to consider both the current and future priorities of a specific urban area, as well as the marginal future visions in that urban area. In this regard, emerging geospatial technologies and advanced scenario-based modelling approaches provide tools to help urban areas to anticipate and adapt to potential future stressors.
In this Special Issue, we would like to invite authors to submit innovative and original research that stimulates the debate on recent and future trends, in both processes and the roles played by spatial planning, and how advances in theory, methodology and/or policy related to planning can provide opportunities for a planning paradigm shift towards smart spatial planning.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Theories, praxis and key concepts for smart spatial planning;
- Urban sustainability challenges and innovative planning practices and solutions;
- Emerging technologies and geospatial approaches;
- Participatory planning approaches and scenario building;
- Smart spatial planning.
Dr. Raquel Faria de Deus
Prof. Dr. José António Tenedório
Dr. Carlos Antunes
Dr. Rui Pedro Julião
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart spatial planning
- urban sustainability challenges
- anticipatory knowledge
- participatory governance, resilient territories
- emerging geospatial technologies
- scenario building
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