Building Resilient Landscapes and Green Cities Along the Coast and in the Upland of Vietnam

A continuously growing population and their migration to urban centers consequently leads to waste expansion. The rapidly increasing quantities of waste generated in the cities affect way of human life, environment and planet. Hence, the necessity for smarter, safer, and greener places have never been more urgent. The novel technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) particularly, holds the potential to better manage waste and recycling. The IoT-driven waste management systems positively influence achieving the vision of smart green cities. This article analyzes the role of smart and safe IoT-powered waste management system, highlights its benefits, and possibilities of implementation and evaluation. It is expected that the IoT-based waste management system will deal successfully with an increasing amount of diverse types of waste and through the realization of a smart green city vision will resolve numerous problems related to human health and environmental contamination.

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Medieval Green Cities: Thirdspace and the Challenge of History

Spaces in-between ◽

10.1163/9789004299368_012 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 177-201

Keyword(s):

Green Cities

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The "Green Cities" Program: Strategies for enhancing space in the municipalities of Pará

Ambiente & sociedade ◽

10.1590/1809-4422asocex04v1822015en ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 59-74

Author(s):

Jodival Mauricio da COSTA ◽

Marie-Françoise FLEURY

Keyword(s):

Strategic Alliances ◽

Spatial Planning ◽

Direct Action ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Economic Value ◽

Environmental Issue ◽

Environmental Discourse ◽

Policy Changes ◽

Public Power ◽

Green Cities

In recent decades, the environmental issue has led to greater flexibility of spatial scales, using an environmental discourse to intervene on the ground. The State has been organising this space, using the environmental issue as justification, with specific laws containing spatial planning objectives, as well as allowing municipalities to carry out direct action in their territories to deal with the most urgent issues relating to land management. At the same time, as has happened with policy changes since the 1990s, public power has established territorial strategic alliances with the private sector in a way which has mainly favoured the latter. This article aims to show how this issue is dealt with in the Green Municipalities Program, which began in Southeast Pará in 2008. The results show a process of re-harnessing the economic value of the space using the discourse of "sustainable development".

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