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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 (30 March 2023) | Viewed by 8995

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Dr. Donghyun Kim

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Department Urban Planning and Engineering, College of Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
Interests: urban resilience; social innovation; regional inequality; urban epidemiology; climate change adaptation; regional planning

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Dear Colleagues,

The health impacts of climate change are important and increasing concerns for citizens living in urban areas. With the emerging risk of climate change, the health impacts are related to socioeconomic damage and vulnerability including individual health status, occupational risk, social inequality, as well as community health. Most people around the world live in urban areas and understanding how climate change will affect health is an important issue for policy makers, urban planners, and public health institutions. In addition, it is a challenging task for academic researchers to predict the unknown effects of climate change.

This Special Issue plans to provide an overview of the most recent advances in the field of public health, environmental studies, urban studies, and occupational health and safety. It aims to cover promising, recent, and innovative research studies on scientific analyses, evaluation, projection, policy issues, and strategies related to climate change and health in urban areas. Topics to be covered in this Special Issue may include, but are not limited to: the impacts of climate change on public health; health vulnerability and socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change; policy mechanisms and evaluation to mitigate the negative impacts of public health; economic analysis about public health impacts and socioeconomic changes; estimation about mortality related to climate change.

Dr. Donghyun Kim
Guest Editor

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climate change
health impacts
public health

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Immersive Experience and Climate Change Monitoring in Digital Landscapes: Evidence from Somatosensory Sense and Comfort

by Zhengsong Lin, Ziqian Yang and Xinyue Ye

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(4), 3332; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043332 - 14 Feb 2023

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In this study, the virtual engine software (Unity 2019, Unity Software Inc., San Francisco, California, the U.S.) was used to generate a digital landscape model, forming a virtual immersive environment. Through field investigation and emotional preference experiments, the ancient tree ecological area and the sunlight-exposed area were respectively monitored, and the somatosensory comfort evaluation model was established. The subjects showed the highest degree of interest in the ancient tree ecological area after landscape roaming experience, and the mean variance in SC fluctuation was 13.23% in experiments. The subjects were in a low arousal state and had a significant degree of interest in the digital landscape roaming scene, and there was a significant correlation between positive emotion, somatosensory comfort and the Rating of Perceived Exertion index; moreover, the somatosensory comfort of the ancient tree ecological area was higher than that of the sunlight-exposed area. Meanwhile, it was found that somatosensory comfort level can effectively distinguish the comfort level between the ancient tree ecological area and the sunlight-exposed area, which provides an important basis for monitoring extreme heat. This study concludes that, in terms of the goal of harmonious coexistence between human and nature, the evaluation model of somatosensory comfort can contribute to reducing people’s adverse views on extreme weather conditions. Full article

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Multidisciplinary Understanding of the Urban Heating Problem and Mitigation: A Conceptual Framework for Urban Planning

by SangHyeok Lee and Donghyun Kim

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(16), 10249; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610249 - 18 Aug 2022

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With the global acceleration of urbanization, temperatures in cities are rising continuously with global climate change, creating an imminent risk of urban heat islands and urban heating. Although much research has attempted to analyze urban heating from various perspectives, a comprehensive approach to urban planning that addresses the problem is just beginning. This study suggests a conceptual framework for multidisciplinary understanding of urban heating by reviewing 147 selected articles from various fields, published between 2007 and 2021, that discuss urban heating mitigation. From these, we identified several outdoor and indoor temperature-reduction factors and proposed area-based, zoning-based, and point-based approaches to mitigate urban heating. Full article

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Associations of Urban and Green Land Covers and Heat Waves in 49 U.S. Cities between 1992 and 2019

by Sakib Hasan, Woonsup Choi and Sangjun Kang

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(13), 7688; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137688 - 23 Jun 2022

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The study aimed to examine how changing land use conditions are related to the occurrence of heat waves. The employed methods were (1) the Urban Expansion Intensity Index (UEII) and the Green Expansion Intensity (GEII) for 49 cities in the U.S. between 1992 and 2019; (2) Spearman correlation analyses of heat wave indicators including frequency, season, duration, and intensity for UEII, and GEII, respectively. Major findings include the following: (1) urban areas have increased rapidly with an average UEII value of 1.5; (2) green Areas have increased at a slow pace, which have a GEII average value of 0.017, where the median value is −0.1, meaning the green area is declining in most U.S. cities; (3) The UEII and heat wave duration show a negative relationship with a significant correlation (

γ_{s}

= −0.296 and

ρ

= 0.04); (4) UEII and heat wave intensity show a positive relationship with a significant correlation (

γ_{s}

= 0.32 and

ρ

= 0.027). It was found that heat wave intensity can be a public health issue in high urban expansion intensity areas. The results imply that cities would be better in a more compact pattern with more expanded green areas to mitigate the negative health impacts of heat waves on citizens in urban areas. It is noticeable that there are some patterns to be investigated further in the context of urban developments and heat wave characteristics. Full article

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Spatial Disparity of Visitors Changes during Particulate Matter Warning Using Big Data Focused on Seoul, Korea

by Sang-Hyeok Lee and Jung Eun Kang

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(11), 6478; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116478 - 26 May 2022

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This study examined the changes in the number of visitors to regions during periods of high particulate matter (PM) concentrations in Seoul and analyzed the regional differences of these changes. Further, it examined the spatial characteristics that affect these regional differences. This study mapped the regional differences by conducting a spatial cluster analysis using GIS and examined factors affecting the regional differences using logistic regression analysis. The visiting population data used in this study were obtained from the Big Data on the de facto population measured every hour at mobile base stations, and all analyses were conducted in terms of weekdays and weekends. The results indicated that the visiting population decreases significantly on weekdays when there are high PM concentrations; however, visits increase on weekends, even during periods of high PM concentrations. Moreover, there was a huge regional gap in visiting population changes. Regions with more commercial use, higher bus accessibility, and better pedestrian environment (pedestrian paths, Walk Score) were more likely to be hotspots, whereas regions with high residential and industrial use were more likely to be cold spots. These results can be used as the basic data for PM policies based on regional characteristics. Full article

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