TY - JOUR
T1 - Technological Innovations for Enhancing Disaster Resilience in Smart Cities
T2 - A Comprehensive Urban Scholar’s Analysis
AU - Samarakkody, Aravindi
AU - Amaratunga, Dilanthi
AU - Haigh, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
The work was conducted as part of Aravindi Samarakkody’s doctoral programme, supervised by Dilanthi Amaratunga and Richard Haigh.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/8/6
Y1 - 2023/8/6
N2 - Despite advancements, Smart Cities encounter hazards. Smart Cities’ higher reliance on interconnected systems and networks makes them susceptible to risks beyond conventional ones, leading to cascading effects. Hence, the effective use of technological innovations is vital. This effective use involves understanding the existing use of technology innovations for resilience making in Smart Cities and the wise utilisation of them as suitable for different contexts. However, there is a research gap for a fundamental study that synthesises the emerging and disruptive technologies that are being used to improve the disaster resilience in Smart Cities and how they can be classified. Therefore, this research aimed to address that need, so that a Smart City evaluating the technologies/tools for disaster resilience could wisely utilise the available resources and prioritise the most suitable for their context-specific needs. Following a comprehensive literature review, the study identified 24 technologies and/or tools for creating, sustaining, and enhancing the resilience within Smart Cities. In doing so, they should collect and manage citywide geodata and foster public participation. While the wise utilisation of the most suitable and feasible tools and technologies is a measure of smartness in a Smart City, the findings suggested four key factors with which these technologies could be assessed. These four factors included impact on society, the adoption speed by Smart Cities, the maturity of the technology, and the capabilities offered to the community.
AB - Despite advancements, Smart Cities encounter hazards. Smart Cities’ higher reliance on interconnected systems and networks makes them susceptible to risks beyond conventional ones, leading to cascading effects. Hence, the effective use of technological innovations is vital. This effective use involves understanding the existing use of technology innovations for resilience making in Smart Cities and the wise utilisation of them as suitable for different contexts. However, there is a research gap for a fundamental study that synthesises the emerging and disruptive technologies that are being used to improve the disaster resilience in Smart Cities and how they can be classified. Therefore, this research aimed to address that need, so that a Smart City evaluating the technologies/tools for disaster resilience could wisely utilise the available resources and prioritise the most suitable for their context-specific needs. Following a comprehensive literature review, the study identified 24 technologies and/or tools for creating, sustaining, and enhancing the resilience within Smart Cities. In doing so, they should collect and manage citywide geodata and foster public participation. While the wise utilisation of the most suitable and feasible tools and technologies is a measure of smartness in a Smart City, the findings suggested four key factors with which these technologies could be assessed. These four factors included impact on society, the adoption speed by Smart Cities, the maturity of the technology, and the capabilities offered to the community.
KW - disruptive technologies
KW - emerging technologies
KW - smart city
KW - urban (city) resilience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85167815603&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su151512036
DO - 10.3390/su151512036
M3 - Article
VL - 15
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 15
M1 - 12036
ER -
