Chapters will be published in the book
Smart Governance for Smart Cities: Perspectives and Experiences

We are assisting a worldwide fierce fight against the sustainability challenges raised by the rapid urbanization. Within their countries, cities are addressing those unprecedented challenges with smart governance models, a new governance paradigm seen as a capable approach able to overcome social, economic and environmental substantiality problems.

This book provides theoretical perspectives and practical experiences on smart governance for smart cities. It makes a perfect linkage between research, policies and practices on this area.

1. Understanding Smart Governance
1.1 Basic Concepts
1.2. Smart Governance and Sustainable Development
2. Building Smart Cities
2.1. Public Policies
2.2. Transformation – Case Studies
3. Adaption and Transfer
3.1. Country, Regional, Municipal Contextualization
3.2. Best Practices
4. Monitoring and Evaluating
4.1. Indicators and indices
4.2. Impact assessment

The proposals need to be formatted according the Springer Instructions and submitted in Word format by e-mail to lopes@unu.edu. The proposals should not exceed the 50 pages and should contain:

1) Title
2) Author(s) and affiliation
3) Type of contribution (case study(ies), full research paper, conceptual paper, full chapter)
4) Keywords (minimum 3)
5) Abstract of 300 words

For further question please contact Nuno Lopes (lopes@unu.edu).