The Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Smart and Sustainable Cities

Gabrielli do Livramento Gonçalves, Walter Leal Filho, Samara da Silva Neiva, André Borchardt Deggau, Manoela de Oliveira Veras, Flávio Ceci, Maurício Andrade de Lima and José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
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Gabrielli do Livramento Gonçalves: Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis 88704-900, Brazil
Walter Leal Filho: Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management”, Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Ulmenliet 20, D-21033 Hamburg, Germany
Samara da Silva Neiva: Department of Administration Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis 88040-900, Brazil
André Borchardt Deggau: Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis 88704-900, Brazil
Manoela de Oliveira Veras: Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis 88704-900, Brazil
Flávio Ceci: Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis 88704-900, Brazil
Maurício Andrade de Lima: Universidade do Vale do Rio do Peixe (UNIARP), Florianópolis 88040-900, Brazil
José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra: Centre for Sustainable Development (GREENS), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis 88704-900, Brazil

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-21

Abstract: This article aims to analyze the impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the implementation of smart sustainable cities. For this purpose, a data mining process was conducted to analyze the terms that had a higher incidence in the literature in order to classify them by relevance and identify their interdependencies in the concepts of sustainable cities and smart cities. As a result, we highlight that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have implications on several factors that are deeply connected to the success of cities in becoming sustainable: job creation, industries, innovation, environmental preservation, community involvement, and accessibility. In this context, policymakers will have opportunities and challenges that must be faced. Big data, the IoT, augmented reality, and simulations can have positive and negative externalities. Positive externalities include new information that could be mined, analyzed, and used for identifying previously unseen problems, the provision of new industrial innovations that can make economies thrive, helping promote inclusion for disabled people, as well as helping society to foresee problems and hence adapt to them in a timely manner.

Keywords: smart cities; sustainable cities; smart sustainable cities; fourth industrial; revolution; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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