ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the main characteristics of disaster related to smart cities and to underline the advantages in the application of the concept of resilience to the development of smart cities. It analyses how the concept of resilience can be applied to smart cities. As the world continues to urbanise, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities. Cities and urban areas are complex social and socio-ecological systems, where ensuring sustainable development and quality of life is an important concern. The definition and development of smart cities will further develop a concept of the risk society: societies will depend more and more on immaterial services generated and provided by a number of interdependent systems and processes. In order to develop new smart cities, policy-makers face a major challenge: how to steer economic growth with secure and reliable innovative services for citizens, without despoiling the environment.
