ABSTRACT
The smart everything–smart city paradigm is changing the normative aspects of sustainability. This chapter discusses the changing logic of environmental sustainability in the smart city–smart everything paradigm. It explains the big sustainability challenges of fossil fuels, greenhouse emissions and climate change, pollution of natural ecosystems, waste and water management in cities. The chapter also discusses the sustainability practices or how solutions are organised by Smart Urban Growth, New Urbanism, and Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design principles. It shows the different logic of sustainabilty that emerges with smart cities, the Internet of Things, and the new science of environmental applications. The chapter looks at the contribution of sensors to sustainability and the limits and risks associated with their use. Many cities use sensors in parks and gardens for irrigation, to measure soil humidity and more effectively manage water supply to grass and plants.
