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18. Financing Sustainable Infrastructures in a Smart Cities’ Context—Innovative Concepts, Solutions and Instruments

Authors : Laura Canas da Costa, Tobias Popović

Published in: Innovations for Metropolitan Areas

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Infrastructure, defined as “the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions” (Fulmer 2009), represents an indispensable backbone for an economy’s functioning and long‐term stability. Urban citizens depend on infrastructure for virtually all essential services: heating or cooling their homes, cooking, travelling to work or school using public transport, disposing of waste or browsing the internet. Nowhere is infrastructure more interconnected than in cities. …

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Title: Financing Sustainable Infrastructures in a Smart Cities’ Context—Innovative Concepts, Solutions and Instruments
Authors: Laura Canas da Costa
Tobias Popović
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Innovations for Metropolitan Areas
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-60805-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-60806-7

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60806-7_18

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