SSC-2020: Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference Lille Catholic University Lille, France, May 20-21, 2021

Conference website	https://www.smart-and-sustainable.org/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssc20200
Submission deadline	April 15, 2021

The Smart And Sustainable Cities Conference : Economics, Finance & Management of Sustainability SSC-2020 conference (https://www.smart-and-sustainable.org/) will focus on the challenging energy transition issues and the role of Smart Cities in shaping socioeconomic and environmental aspects at global scale. More precisely, it aims at providing an international overview of the many faces of Smart-Cities, including smart mobility, social innovation, sustainable resilient buildings, energy and water management, energy efficiency, clean energies deployment, and smart grids and storage. This conference will be the place to debate and exchange ideas between experts and professionals engaged in academia, by the government, in national and international organizations.

The specific objective of this conference is to obtain a clearer understanding of the role played by Smart-Cities, ICT Technologies and Platforms for Smart Cities, smart mobility, energy efficiency, and green energy in addressing key energy and environmental challenges facing humanity.

Submission Guidelines

• Full paper or long abstract submission due date: June 30, 2020 Mars 15, 2021    April 15, 2021
• Acceptance notification date: July 15, 2020 April 1st,2021   May 1, 2021
• Conference Date : October 8-9, 2020  May 20-21, 2021.

List of Topics

SSC-2020 warmly welcomes research contributions from various fields, including economics, environmental & social sciences, management, urban & regional planning, computer science, engineering and energy related studies, as well as from the professional community.  You are invited to submit both theoretical and empirical papers in all areas of Smart-Cities, Sustainable resilient buildings, Energy efficiency, Environmental and energy economics for presentation at the SSC-2020 Conference.

Contributions to SSC-2020 are expected to cover a wide range of topics related to Smart and Sustainable Cities, namely:

• Economic, social and environmental value of Smart-Cities.
• Drivers and barriers for Smart-Cities development
• Behavioral changes: challenges, strategies, and lessons learned.
• ICT diffusion & Social changes
• Social sustainability & Smart mobility
• Energy, urban innovation & Smart-Cities.
• Smart Cities & entrepreneurial opportunities
• Resilience and sustainability
• Housing and energy policies.
• Social inclusion & sustainability
• Challenges, investment opportunities and technological innovations in the energy sector.
• Regional energy supply and security.
• Economic and social impact of renewable energy sources.
• Policy responses: Sustainable value chain creation and enhancement.
• Health & welfare benefit of replacing traditional fuels.
• Sustainable energy efficiency financing and delivery mechanisms.
• Building energy efficiency: Challenges and solutions
• Investment and individual preference for energy efficiency purchase decisions.
• Economic Inequality and Household Energy Consumption
• Exposure and risk to fuel poverty: New dimension of inequality
• Mitigation and adaptation policy measures for global and regional environmental challenges.
• Internet of Things and business opportunities in the cities
• Artificial Intelligence and Security Issues
• Smart Cities and inequalities
• New Business Models of Mobility
• Climate Change resilience
• Smart systems for Climate change adaptation
• Social Innovation at the Service of the Smart Cities

Committees

Conference co-chairs

• Dr. Fateh BELAID & Dr. Véronique FLAMBARD

Steering committee

• Laetitia Devigne
• Nicolas Gouvy
• Julie Jacques
• Camille Massié
• Loïc Aubrée

Scientific Committee

• Adel Ben Youssef, University Côte d’Azur (GREDEG-CNRS), France.
• Andrew Ojede, Texas State University, USA.
• Anis Omri, Qassim University, KSA.
• Benoit-Sévi, Nantes University, France
• But Dedaj, University of Pristinha, Kosovo
• Christophe Rault, University of Orleans, France.
• Daniel De Wolf, Littoral Côte d’Opale University, France.
• Elias Boukrami, Regent’s University, UK.
• Elisabetta Magnaghi, FGES, Lille Catholic University.
• Emanuel Xavier-Oliveira, Michigan Technological University, USA.
• Etienne Farvaque, Lille University, France.
• Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Associate Professor, Tokai University, Japan.
• George Filis, Bournemouth University, UK.
• Isam Shahrour, Lille University, France.
• Jean-Pierre Lévy, CNRS Research Director, LATTS, France.
• Jean-Thomas Bernard, Ottawa University, Canada.
• Jeffry B. Nugent, University of Southern California
• Julien Chavallier, Paris 8 University, France.
• Khalid Kisswani, Gulf University for Science & University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
• Laurent Bertrandias, Toulouse Business School, France
• Leila Dagher, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
• Marcus Marktaner, Kennesaw State University, USA
• Moez Kilani, Lille Economie Management, France
• Mohamed Arouri, University Côte d’Azur, France.
• Mouez Fodha, Paris School of Economics, France.
• Nathalie Hilmi, Scientific Center of Monaco, Monte Carlo.
• Nathalie Lazaric, University Côte d’Azur (GREDEG-CNRS), France.
• Nicolas Vaillant, Lille Catholic University, France.
• Patrice Geoffron, University of Paris-Dauphine, France.
• Patrick Plane, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Paul Makdissi, Ottawa University.
• Sabri Boubaker, EM Normandie Business School, France.
• Shawkat Hammoudeh, Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, United States.
• Tapan Sarkar, Griffith University, Australia.
• Thomas Baudin, IESEG Business School, France.
• Yang-Ming Chang, Kansas State University, USA.

 

Invited Speakers

• Professor Matthieu Glachant  : Professor of economics, MINES Paristech, PSL Research University
• Professor Stef Proost  : Full professor at the KULeuven, and visiting professor at the Center for Transport Studies (KTH Stockholm).
• Professor Isam Shahrour : Distinguished Professor at Lille UniversityDirector of the Civil and geo-Environmental Engineering Research Laboratory (LGCgE)

Publication

The best papers will be considered for publication in :

• Special Issue of Modelling in Management under the Guest Editorship of Fateh BELAID (Lille Catholic University) and Julien Chevallier (University of Paris 8) (https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1746-5664).

• Special Issue of Smart Cities under the Guest Editorship of Isam SHAHROUR (Lille University), Fateh BELAID (Lille Catholic University), and Véronique FLAMBARD (Lille Catholic University) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/special_issues/economy_finance_smart-cities

  Special Issue of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies under the Guest Editorship of Fateh BELAID (Lille Catholic University)  (https://preview-www.springer.com/journal/10018/updates/18997246).

  Special Issue of Frontier in Energy Research under the Guest Editorship of Fateh BELAID (Lille Catholic University) forthcoming

Registration

The SSC-2020 conference registration fees and information are accessible in their official website https://www.smart-and-sustainable.org/

Venue

The SSC-2020 conference will will take place in Lille Catholique University, 60 Boulevard Vauban, 59000, Lille, France.

Contact

For additional information regarding Smart & Sustainable Cities Conference 2020, please contact:

Fateh BELAID or Veronique FLAMBARD: FGES.Smart.Cities@univ-catholille.fr