5. Conclusions
Summing up the above considerations, there is a fundamental question of whether it is possible to equate green
logistics with a smart green city. It seems, however, that this involves the relationship: smart city - smart inhabitants
- smart authorities - wise effects. These wise effects apply especially to the practical reduction of resource depletion
necessary to meet the demands of residents and functional needs of the city or maximization of favorability and
functionality of the city space for the effective and efficient meeting of the needs of the stakeholders.
Therefore, the question is whether in the face of the more frequently observed positive changes in attitudes
towards these solutions, the smart green city of the future will include the following features:
(i) more compact form,
(ii) structure deindustrialization,
(iii) greater heterogeneity,
(iv) holistic thinking,
(v) functionality maximization,
(vi) greater humanization,
(vii) lower power supply cost, and
(viii) increase of the public goods utility.
It seems, however, that in the current socio-economic context, it is not enough just to present “green economy”
slogans as a universal solution to all the problems of sustainable development in the contemporary city. Especially,
since the modern economy, and thus “green economy”, is also the economy of uncertainty with instable knowledge,
where key decision problems faced by decision makers responsible for sustainable development in the city are
connected with the needs and limitations.
Therefore, green logistics in the smart city is not seen only as a way of satisfying the needs of a specific entity set
to make a profit, the consequence of which is a cost formula. Yet it seems that urban logistics is rather an efficiency
asymmetry, since the objects are entities that are not focused on profit in its classical sense, i.e. the relation of effects
and costs. Rather, there is the cost added at the individual level, in the name of reducing the overall costs, including
external interests of the entire system of the city. Although in recent years, more and more attention is drawn to the
problems of environmental protection and ecology in diverse areas of human activity, an open question is still: what
is the level of acceptance of these additional costs, in the context of rising social trend? Thus, this is based on the
leading indicators for smart green city, which can become, for example: an increase in wealth of residents,
improvement in the quality of life (e.g. quality of water, air, the availability of green areas), good governance
(stability and the prospects of life), an increase in the economics of life (cheaper life), an increase of modernity (e.g.
the availability of telepathic solutions) or the quality of life (e.g. mobile security and traffic flow).
Many cities raise slogans relating to the ongoing process of environmental degradation resulting from
manufacturing or consumer actions of humans and a significant depletion of natural resources resulting from the
conflict between the progress of civilization (growth) and technological development (development). But it is
a problem that still has not been solved, because on the one hand, people seek to increase matter, and on the other
hand, they strive for the greater state of ownership by extending the potential or implementing specific capabilities.
Therefore, as a result of numerous discussions and publications concerning these problems, the compromise have
been found, which led to the formation of the idea of a new concept for the further development of civilization
defined as “sustainable development”.
The concept of sustainable development is a proposal for a qualitatively new form of conscious, responsible
individual and social life in smart green city, based on development along with the social and natural environment,
including environmental constraints and social expectations of all concurrent users of urban space (stakeholders).