I-Sustainability Plus Theory as an Innovative Path towards Sustainable World Founded on Blue-Green Ubiquitous Cities (Case Studies: Denmark and South Korea)

Hamid Doost Mohammadian,Fatemeh Rezaie

doi:10.3390/inventions5020014

Abstract

Nowadays, the new concept of urban living is required as a path to struggle with urbanization challenges in order to maintain the world and make cities better settings for living through creating high quality of life and liveability. To achieve such areas, developing sustainability, urban planning based on Information Technology, Information Communication Technology infrastructure, and innovative management play important roles. So, authors try to find out new concepts of urban life concerned with these indicators through sustainability, innovation, ubiquitous, and smartness to create a sustainable and modern world through smart cities. Based on authors’ researches, Blue-Green infrastructure based on environmentally friendly, green strategies, sustainable water management, and ubiquitous services focusing on digitalization and high technologies are required to make a modern world. Fundamentally, innovation management in technology, business and marketing has important roles in designing such areas by keeping up with growing demands and low resources of energies. In this research, i-Sustainability Plus is introduced as a theory to create Blue-Green Ubiquitous cities as modern sustainable and liveable urban areas. Such areas could make the world a better place for living through sustainable development and improving quality of human life.

Highlights

Nowadays, the world confronts global challenges including poverty, slum, economic problems, environmental challenges, climate change, social instability, insecurity, and health disease
Features of the fourth wave high technologies such as Information Technology, Information Communication Technology, cloud computing like Internet of Things, Internet of Business, Internet of Energy, Internet of Manufacturing and digitalization could be used as techniques to deal with global challenges
Information Technology (IT), Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Internet of Thing (IoT), Internet of Business (IoB), Internet of Energy (IoE), and Internet of Manufacturing (IoM) are high technology techniques to implement strategies and solutions needed for sustainable development

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The world confronts global challenges including poverty, slum, economic problems, environmental challenges, climate change, social instability, insecurity, and health disease. Global challenges are significant threats for the world and environment, and for human beings These challenges and risks could make quality of life and livability worsen and destroy the future of living in the plant. Besides the UN, World Economic Forum (WEF) has proposed global risks such as climate-change, weapons of mass-destruction, water crises, largescale involuntary migration, and severe energy price shocks in 2016. These risks and opportunities vary from region and country, all countries have to use strategies to deal with them and maintain the world (WEF)

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