Green Blockchain Technology for Sustainable Smart Cities

1st Edition - May 5, 2023
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Saravanan Krishnan, Valentina Emilia Balas, Raghvendra Kumar
Language: English
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Green Blockchain Technology for Sustainable Smart Cities presents a detailed exploration of the adaptation and implementation of green blockchain technology for sustainable and eco-friendly smart city applications. This book covers all aspects of the topic and explores smart cities ecosystem applications of blockchain technology. Novel architectural and business blockchain use case solutions in smart city implementations are at the core of this book, which will be beneficial for all researchers, engineers, graduate students, smart city practitioners, and city administrators who are engaged in green blockchain and smart cities-related technologies.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Section I. Green engineering using blockchain
Chapter 1. Green blockchain for smart cities—an introduction
1. Introduction
2. Green blockchain
3. Branches of green technology
4. Blockchain architecture and analysis
5. Green IoT and blockchain in smart cities
6. Open challenges of green blockchain
7. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Improving citizen lifestyle in green smart city
1. Introduction
2. Need for smart cities
3. Structure for smart cities
4. The smart city mission and vision
5. Sustainable development of smart cities
6. Green blockchain for smart cities
7. Requirements for evolving an ordinary town toward a smart town
8. Indian smart cities
9. Quality of life in urban areas
10. Smart sustainable cities—global perspective
11. Interplay and the growth of the green blockchain in different sectors—interrelationships
12. Suggestions for making smart cities (possible options)
13. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Eco-friendly blockchain for smart cities
1. Introduction
2. Types of blockchain execution and widespread consent algorithms
3. Benefits of blockchain incorporation with smart cities
4. Environmental benefits of smart cities with blockchain technology
5. How blockchain is eco-friendly?
6. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Impact of blockchain technology on the urban environment and climate change
1. Introduction
2. The disruptive technology: green blockchain
3. Use cases of blockchain for smart cities
4. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Green IoT use case approaches for blockchain technology taking industry 5.0 to the next level
1. Introduction
2. Blockchain in exploit: Green IoT construct cities run enhanced, faster, inexpensive
3. How Green IoT are your digital systems centered on blockchain technology?
4. Blockchain technology en route to reshaping green finance in 2022
5. Green IoT and blockchain-centered smart farming and agriculture
6. Industry 5.0—Green IoT and blockchain in mere future
7. Conclusion
Section II. Green blockchain applications
Chapter 6. Blockchain-based green energy for smart cities
1. Introduction
2. Technology architecture of blockchain
3. Energy internet
4. Integration of blockchain technologies
5. Applications of blockchain in energy internet for smart cities
6. Opportunities and challenges of blockchain technology applied to energy internet
7. Challenges
8. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Green finance for sustainable development using blockchain technology
1. Introduction
2. Green finance
3. Embracing green technological innovation for sustainable development
4. Blockchain-driven green finance for sustainability
5. Blockchain innovations in green bond market
6. Blockchain can power green finance
7. Challenges of the new approaches to green finance
8. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Adoption of blockchain technology in the real estate sector toward the improvement of smart cities
1. Introduction
2. Concept of smart cities
3. Significance of real estate sector in developing smart cities
4. Application of blockchain technology in real estate sector: cases
5. Real estate for sustainable smart cities
6. Concerns of real estate beyond blockchain technology
7. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Blockchain technology and green policing: evaluating the efficacy for sustainable smart cities in India
1. Introduction
2. Research problem
3. Conceptualization of blockchain technology
4. Evaluation of blockchain technology
5. Law and society with blockchain technology
6. Green crime and criminology
7. Constitutional perspectives and green crime
8. Green policing and sustainable development
9. Blockchain technology and green policing: Indian perspective
10. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Smart practices in green supply chain management using blockchain technology
1. Introduction
2. Digitalization in green supply chain management
3. Building a sustainable digital logistic ecosystem
4. Impact of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology on green supply chain management
5. Best practices of supply chain management using blockchain technology
6. Conclusion
7. The bottom line
Chapter 11. Green blockchain technology for sustainable smart cities
1. Introduction
2. Blockchain technology definition
3. Features of blockchain technology
4. Disadvantages of blockchains
5. Green energy examples using blockchain
6. Overview of blockchain with respect to smart cities
7. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Blockchain-based big data platforms for sustainable smart cities
1. Introduction
2. An overview of blockchain and big data
3. Smart city
4. Platforms for smart cities
5. Blockchain and big data in smart healthcare
6. Conclusion
Section III. Green blockchain use cases, challenges, and future directions
Chapter 13. Blockchain technology toward green internet of things—an exploratory survey
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Blockchain technology and artificial intelligence
4. Blockchain and the IOT
5. Green IoT for developing smart cities through blockchain
6. Green blockchain toward green IoT
7. Research methodology
8. Discussion and outlook
9. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Survey on impact of green blockchain in green marketing—Chennai city
1. Introduction
2. History
3. Objectives of the study
4. Scope of the study
5. Green marketing—what it means?
6. Significance of green blockchain in green marketing
7. Urban city
8. Limitations of the study
9. Research methodology
10. Analysis and interpretation
11. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Adoption and acceptability of blockchain technology in supply chain management: A study on horticulture industry of Jammu and Kashmir
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Methodology
4. Data analysis
5. Theoretical and practical contribution
6. Conclusion
Chapter 16. Exploring cyber attacks in blockchain technology enabled green smart city
1. Introduction
2. Security issues in blockchain-enabled smart city
3. Key pillars for blockchain security
4. Cybersecurity issues in blockchain technology
5. Attacks in blockchain-enabled smart city
6. Solution for cyberattacks for blockchain-enabled smart cities
7. Cybersecurity attacks and their effect on blockchian-enabled smart cities
8. Solving security issues through blockchain characteristics
9. Challenges of adapting blockchain in smart cities
10. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Multidisciplinary challenges in green smart cities implementation
1. Introduction
2. Green smart cities
3. Challenges in green smart cities
4. Conclusion
Index

Saravanan Krishnan

Saravanan Krishnan is working as a Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University, Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has done ME in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science Engineering. His research interests include cloud computing, software engineering, Internet of Things, and smart cities. He has published research papers in 14 international conferences and 27 international journals. He has also written 9 book chapters and 5 books with international publishers. He has done consultancy work for Municipal Corporation and Smart City schemes.

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Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University, Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu

Valentina Emilia Balas

Valentina E. Balas is a Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD Cum Laude, in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is a member of the editorial boards of several national and international journals and evaluator expert for national, international projects, and PhD thesis. Dr. Balas is the Director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs, and Projects in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She is the recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).

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Professor, Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania, and Academy of Romanian Scientists, Romania

Raghvendra Kumar

Raghvendra Kumar is working as an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at GIET University, India. He received BTech, MTech, and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, India, and Postdoc Fellow from the Institute of Information Technology, Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Vietnam. He has published a number of research papers in international journals and conferences. His research areas are computer networks, data mining, cloud computing, and secure multiparty computations, theory of computer science, and design of algorithms. He authored and edited 23 computer science books in field of IoT, data mining, and biomedical engineering.

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Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GIET University, India

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