Urban Environmental Management and Urban Health Issues: What Sustainable and Livable Cities Look Like?
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 48470
Special Issue Editor
Interests: urban environmental studies; urban public health; GIS/remote S\sensing; spatiotemporal data analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
When Sandro Galea and David Vlahov presented their seminal work on Urban Health in 2005 in the Annual Reviews of Public Health, the foci on urban health were clearly defined as how urban physical environments, social environments, and access to health and social services impacts city dwellers’ health. The promotion of sustainable urban development and livable cities in the past three decades has effectively merged the themes of urban health, urban sustainability, and urban livability into an integrated research field. As more people are predicted to live in a relatively confined space, the balance between the physical/built environment, social environment and urban dwellers becomes more delicate. Urban system evolves to be more complex than ever during this process. While complex systems often offer relative stability, delicate balance requires carefully designed plans and management to avoid collapse. It is hence of great interest and importance to know what the future sustainable and livable cities look like. What are the delicate and dynamic balance among environment, services, and people in the confined urban space? How will such balance be well maintained and sustainable? What are the inherent connections between urban environments (physical/built and social) and population health? How will city governments and city dwellers interact and collaborate during emergency, such as the current COVID-19 global pandemic? These are among the many questions that scholars of urban environmental management and urban health studies can help answer.
This current Special Issue seeks high-quality research articles in the following broad aspects:
- Urban livability and sustainability measurement;
- The livable and sustainable urban landscape: evolvement, mechanisms, and simulation;
- Urban management during global pandemic;
- Effective urban environment management;
- Research perspectives of urban health, urban livability, and urban sustainability;
- Advanced GIS and spatiotemporal data analysis in urban health studies.
Prof. Dr. Danlin Yu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban/regional studies
- GIS
- spatial econometrics
- spatial analysis
- environmental sustainability
- urban remote sensing
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