Sustainable Energy Transition: Urban Planning and Climate Change
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 September 2025 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: modelling and assessment of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity; electric mobility: hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles; battery electric vehicles; study of the carbon footprint from urban planning and land use
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Growth-based planning of cities in a context of climate crisis has become particularly important in the context of dynamic urban growth since 1990. The evolution of urban planning in relation to environmental issues has led to the current situation. For this reason, it is now even more necessary to design and plan cities in the context of climate crisis. Planning with this vision of climate change has become a key factor in controlling urban growth or transformation. This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the latest developments related to urban planning and greenhouse gas emissions and to analyse the causes, focusing on human activities, land use, and renewable energy sources; make the invisible visible to improve decision-making and the selection of alternatives; and apply scientific data to assess which Urban Master Plan (UMP) design has the smallest carbon footprint when in operation; in other words, those alternatives that have the lowest impact on climate change.
The framework of this Special Issue focuses on highlighting how urban planning decisions affect greenhouse gas emissions, without forgetting the importance of the energy transition and how it will affect land use throughout the territory, paying attention, among other things, to activities related to the following topics:
- Transport.
- Mobility solutions.
- Supply and use of drinking water.
- Energy consumption.
- Renewable energy supply.
- Energy transition.
Dr. Roberto Álvarez Fernández
Guest Editor
Dr. Oscar Castillo Campo
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- climate change
- mobility
- urban planning
- GHG emissions
- carbon footprint
- sustainable development
- energy transition
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