SMART CITIES USING SMART CHOICES FOR ENERGY: INTEGRATING MODERN BIOENERGY IN CONSUMPTION

Claudiu Cicea (), Corina Marinescu () and Nicolae Pintilie ()
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Claudiu Cicea: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana, 6, Bucharest, Romania
Corina Marinescu: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana, 6, Bucharest, Romania
Nicolae Pintilie: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana, 6, Bucharest, Romania

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2019, vol. 14, issue 4, 21-34

Abstract: The paper brings into the spotlight the concept of smart city, emerging from major economic, social and environmental considerations and developed to provide new possibilities for the inhabitants, but also to limit the impact of human activities on the environment. Thus, the authors initiate a presentation of attempts to define the smart city, highlighting the six dimensions on its development in a sustainable context. Moreover, as one of the greatest challenges of mankind today is to ensure the increasing demand for energy by maintaining the balance with the environment, the paper highlights aspects regarding the use of a form of renewable energy, known as bioenergy. This is one of the key factors for ensuring the sustainable development of smart cities and beyond. Taking into account that smart cities have a smart energy approach, in the last part of the paper the authors present ways to integrate bioenergy into the functioning of such urban areas in Europe and build a map of smart European cities which make use of bioenergy in the benefit of population’s consumption.

Keywords: biofuels; bioenergy; bioenergy entrepreneurship; smart city; sustainability. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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