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Table of Contents
1. Urbanization in the context of global environmental change 2. Climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities 3. Smart cities: Key definitions and new directions 4. Smart city solutions and climate change ADAPTATION: An overview 5. Smart city solutions and climate change mitigation: An overview 6. The fundamentals of smart city assessment 7. Assessment tools and indicators for smart city assessment 8. The extend of inclusion of smart city indicators in existing urban sustainability assessment tools 9. Indicators to assess contributions of smart city solutions and technologies to urban resilience 10. Contributions of smart technologies to disaster resilience 11. A typology analysis of smart city projects around the world 12. Urban scale climate change adaptation through smart technologies 13. Automated object extraction of satellite imagery to estimate the loss of vegetative land cover and inform climate adaptation actions in San Antonio, Texas 14. Smart transformation in Iran, a step toward adaptation and reduction of climate change 15. Technological solutions for adaptation with Iran’s water resources crisis 16. The way forward for data-driven and climate-resilient cities
