The intersection of the green and the smart city : a data platform for health and well-being through nature-based solutions

Kolokotsa, Dionysia-Denia (author), Lilli, Aikaterini (author), Tsekeri, Elisavet (author), Gobakis, Kostas (author), Katsiokalis, Minas (author), Mania, Aikaterini (author), Baldacchino, Neil (author), Polychronaki, Sevasti (author), Buckley, Niall (author), Micallef, Daniel (author), Calleja, Kurt (author), Clarke, Emma (author), Duca, Edward (author), Mali, Luka (author), Bisello, Adriano (author)

An increasingly important aspect of analyzing the challenges facing cities today is the integration of nature. Nature-based solutions have the potential to successfully cope with the adverse effects of extensive urbanization and climatic change. On the other hand, the incorporation of smartness in cities is a critical issue. This paper aims to analyze the steps towards integrating naturebased solutions and smart city aspects to develop a web-based data platform that focuses on tackling and investigating the role of nature-based solutions in city health and well-being and returns a digital twin of the natural and built environment, including health-related key performance indicators. Seven pilot cities are used as a basis for the analysis. The architecture of a smart green city data platform is described. The interaction with the citizens is ensured through apps and games. The paper lays the foundation for a future “phygital” NBS world.

• Language: English
• Keywords: nature-based solutions, helath, wellbeing, smart cities, platform
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 1-32
• Numbering: Vol. 7, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-165438
• UDC: 004.8+711.4+502.131.1
• ISSN on article: 2624-6511
• DOI: 10.3390/smartcities7010001
• COBISS.SI-ID: 216843011
• Publication date in RUL: 06.12.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Smart cities
• Shortened title: Smart cities
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• ISSN: 2624-6511
• COBISS.SI-ID: 530041625

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: naravne tehnološke rešitve, zdravje, dobro počutje, pametna mesta, platforme

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: 869505
• Name: VISIONARY NATURE BASED ACTIONS FOR HEALTH, WELLBEING & RESILIENCE IN CITIES (VARCITIES)
• Acronym: VARCITIES