Addressing Urban Resilience Through Decision Making and Communication—A Human-Centered Approach
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biometeorology and Bioclimatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 876
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interdisciplinary climate resilient planning and design; environmental management and modelling; human mobility; urban climates; human biometeorology; sustainable development, and bottom-up climate change adaptation
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2. Democritus University of Thrace, 69100 Komotini, Greece
Interests: climate; evaluation of human thermal comfort/stress and planning adaptation possibilities in urban areas
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Within contemporary cities, it is continuously becoming a reality that extreme heat events are becoming part of the new norm as evidenced by the recurrent breaking of global records. Simultaneously, cities continue to expand and densify in terms of their boundaries, morphological composition, and number of urban inhabitants. For this reason, it has never been more crucial that urban environments continue to serve as beacons of long-term human socio-economic prosperity, wellbeing, quality of life, and health.
With the continuous development of the climate change adaptation agenda and sustainable development goals, this Special Issue frames such urgent efforts into three interconnected outlooks as follows:
(1) Environmental risk identification and monitoring, broken down into the particularities of individual variables (e.g., radiation fluxes, relative humidity, wind patterns, and air/surface temperatures), which are then tailored to understand consequences on human and urban bioclimates;
(2) Climate-resilient decision making and design supported by human energy balance models and indices within various measure typologies that embrace the peripatetic human behavioral dynamics that have significant effects on indoor–outdoor cyclical patterns of human activity and wellbeing;
(3) Communication efforts to the public of not only the risk patterns themselves but their integration within sustainable design rationales.
Each of these three outlooks address the imperative role of bioclimatic planning and design to physically shape, modify, and improve climatic resilience whilst concretely comprehending the growing risk factors on human biometeorology due to climate change conditions.
Dr. A. Santos Nouri
Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate-resilient design and planning
- human-centered approaches
- heat risk assessment and communication
- climate change adaptation
- human biometeorology
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