is smart city concept a waste of natural resources
Smart city ICT is used to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to increase contact between citizens and government.[5] Smart city applications are developed to manage urban flows and allow for real-time responses.[6] A smart city may therefore be more prepared to respond to challenges than one with a simple "transactional" relationship with its citizens.[7][8] Yet, the term itself remains unclear to its specifics and therefore, open to many interpretations.[9]
Ecological footprint The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system. The accounts contrast the biologically productive area people use for their consumption to the biologically productive area available within a region or the world (biocapacity). In short, it is a measure of human impact on Earth's ecosystem and reveals the dependence of the human economy on natural capital.