Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Human Population Dynamics and Social Vulnerability
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 3917
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the increasing availability of massive data on human location and activities, studies on human population dynamics have moved beyond the location and distribution of human populations with inquiries into how human populations change over time, and how changing human populations affect related social processes. These massive data are still accumulating, and they include census data (e.g., U.S. decennial censuses and American Community Survey) and data from social media and mobile devices. The inquires can rest on the aggregates of the distribution and movement of individuals at different spatial and temporal scales ranging from intracity residential mobility, migration across regions, to immigration across countries. The inquiries can also be based on individual level identities, behaviors, and activities to examine how micro-environment factors, e.g., social organization and emerging technology, would affect large-scale aggregates. Human population dynamics is a fundamental driver of the ever-changing human society. It has perceived with causes and consequences, one of which is the social vulnerability of human society. How does human population dynamics affect the social vulnerability of human society to hazards? How can the social vulnerability be accurately measured? How does the emerging technologies (e.g., social media networks) and social organizations affect human population dynamics and social vulnerability?
This Special Issue seeks to publish research addressing the following broad aspects:
- Spatial and temporal movement patterns in human population at different scales;
- Contributing factors and consequences of human population migration;
- Migration of socially vulnerable due to hazards or environmental change;
- Patterns in Geographic mobility, especially, of the socially vulnerable;
- The conceptual frameworks, approaches, and applications of social vulnerability;
- The applications of new sensing technologies to human location, movement, activities, and behaviors;
- The effects of social media on human population dynamics and social vulnerability.
Dr. Zengwang Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- migration
- georgaphic mobility
- social vulnerability
- hazards
- social media
- social sensing
- movement patterns
- environment migration
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