Governance and quality of life in smart cities: Towards sustainable development goals

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 253, Issue , 2020, Pages

  De Guimarães, Julio Cesar Ferro ^a   Severo, Eliana Andréa ^b   Felix Júnior, Luiz Antonio ^b   Da Costa, Wênyka Preston Leite Batista ^b   Salmoria, Fernanda Tasso ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b POTIGUAR UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Quality of life; Smart city; Smart governance; Structural equation modeling; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

BRAZIL; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MULTIVARIATE DATA; POPULATION GROWTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; SMART GOVERNANCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

SMART CITY;

EID: 85077394504     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119926     Document Type: Article

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