Evaluation of Citizen Priorities and their Impacts on the Environment through the Smart City Mission in Belagavi City, India

Abstract

Cities in an urban environment change the local climate dramatically. Temperatures are always warmer in the city than it is in the surrounding areas creating a sort of "heat-island" (Harms, 1994). In a city, the solar energy is not used in the same way as in open landscapes with vegetation and trees. Concrete, stone, asphalt, and roofs tend to act as solar collectors and emit and absorb heat. The burning of fossil fuels also emits greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide that heat up the atmosphere around the source and usually the source is within urban environments.