Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
A section of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Section Information
Sustainable urban and rural development is about improving the quality of life in a locality, including ecological, cultural, political, institutional, social and economic components without leaving any burden—e.g., the result of a reduced natural capital and an excessive local debt—on future generations. In other words, prosperity and environmental sustainability of cities and towns are inextricably linked; therefore, human settlements can only maintain their prosperity when environmental and social objectives are fully integrated with economic goals.
Thematically, sustainable urban and rural development includes:
- Sustainable development in the urban context;
- Sustainable development in the regional and rural context;
- Planning for sustainable urban and rural futures;
- Impacts of human activities on natural systems;
- Ecological and urban and regional planning;
- Sustainable urban and rural infrastructure;
- Sustainable transportation systems;
- Sustainable communities;
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation;
- Ecosystem sustainability assessment;
- Ecological and urban indicators;
- Sustainable urban and rural technologies;
- Smart cities and communities.
Accordingly, this section is open for the following types of manuscripts covering the whole breadth of sustainable urban and rural development issues and concerns:
- research articles;
- conceptual articles;
- review articles;
- case studies;
- commentaries
In particular, contributions from early career researchers are welcome and propositions for Special Issues on a single, particular theme in the field of social ecology and sustainability.
Keywords
Sustainable cities; sustainable towns; sustainable urban development; sustainable rural development; sustainable and resilient infrastructure; sustainable transport system; sustainability assessment; sustainability indicators and frameworks; climate change; water sensitive urban design; smart cities; smart communities; eco-cities; eco-villages; land use planning; environmental planning; sustainable urban design; land use and development control; green infrastructure; green roofs; green walls; urban heat island; sustainable architecture; sustainable buildings; sustainable urbanism; urban farming and agriculture; sustainable tourism; sustainable communities.
Editorial Board
Topic Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Development of Methods for Urban Ecosystem Carbon Budgeting and its Contribution to Urban Sustainability (Deadline: 25 May 2021)
- Coupling between Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands: Implications for Heat Stress (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Sustainability in Pavement Design and Pavement Management (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Cultural, Legal and Political Dimensions of Public Norms in Sustainable Metropolitan Spaces (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Urban Green Infrastructure for Climate-Proof and Healthy Cities (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- State of the Art and Future Perspectives in Smart and Sustainable Urban Development (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Road Safety as a Pillar of Sustainable Transportation (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Transformation of Cities: Toward Resilient and Antifragile Models (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Sustainable Household Behaviors: Consumption and Mobility (Deadline: 1 June 2021)
- Lessons on Building More Sustainable Rural Societies: Youth and Mobility (Deadline: 15 June 2021)
- Urban Renewal, Governance and Sustainable Development: More of the Same or New Paths? (Deadline: 15 June 2021)
- Social Economy and Places in the Post-Pandemic Era (Deadline: 29 June 2021)
- Urban Economics, City Development and Future Social Challenges (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Livable Public Spaces and Sustainable Urban Regeneration (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Sustainable Development of Arctic Cities (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Sustainability in Rural Transformation and Development through the Lens of Human (Im)mobilities (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Urban Sprawl and Sustainability II (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Sustainability in Place Marketing, Branding and Management (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Mainstreaming Recommendations to Future Sustainable Urban Planning in Developing and Emerging Economies (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Recent Advances on Phytotechnologies for Water Treatment and Management (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Sustainability in Uncertain Times: Pandemic, Climate, Economy and Urban and Rural Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Sustainable Urban Development and Ecological Risk Management (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Responding to Climate Emergency: Design, Planning and Assessment of the Built Environment (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Reviews and Perspectives on Smart and Sustainable Metropolitan and Regional Cities (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Sustainable Urban Transportation in the Global South – Understanding and Addressing the Challenge (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Applications of Urban Metabolism and the Progress towards Sustainable Cities (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Energy Efficiency and Urban Climate Adaption (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Building Smart and Sustainable Cities: Emerging Technologies and Innovation for Digital-Era Governance and Long-Term Impacts (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Injustices in Urban Mobility: Understanding Place-Based Disparities and Prospects for Thriving Communities (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Guide for Climate-Resilient Cities (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Urbanization and Road Safety Management (Deadline: 15 July 2021)
- Natural and Technological Hazards in Urban Areas: Assessment, Planning and Solutions (Deadline: 30 July 2021)
- How Masterplanning and Urban Design Practice Contribute to Promoting Sustainability? (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Towards a Sustainable Urban Planning for the Green Deal Era (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Landscape Futures for an Urbanized Society—Challenges, Opportunities, and Requirements for the New Anthropogenic Age (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Urban Sustainability: Pavement Design, Construction and Environment (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Urban Legacies of the Late 20th Century (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Culture and Development in Small and Medium-Sized Cities (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Urban Sustainability: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Sustainable Regeneration of Degraded Urban Structures and Fabric (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Urban Analytics and Creation of Services for Sustainable Cities (Deadline: 15 August 2021)
- Space Syntax and the Sustainable City: Theory, Methods and Applications (Deadline: 15 August 2021)
- Sustainable Property Markets (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Human–River Interactions in Cities (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- COVID-19: Defense Strategies and Technologies (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Smart Cities 3.0: Citizens, Space and Sustainable Mobility for the Future City (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Brownfields in Sustainable Urban and Rural System (Deadline: 1 September 2021)
- Smart GIS and Geo-Technology in Sustainable and Crisis Land and Urban Management (Deadline: 1 September 2021)
- Making Use of Land Value and the Built Environment to Achieve Sustainable Urban Development (Deadline: 10 September 2021)
- New Perspectives in the Use of Participatory Methods for Development in Global South and North (Deadline: 10 September 2021)
- Urban Sustainability: Community-Scale Climate Adaptation (Deadline: 15 September 2021)
- Urban Microclimate and Air Quality as Drivers of Urban Design (Deadline: 21 September 2021)
- Green Building Energy System Integration and Eco-Friendly Urban Development (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Intelligent Rural Areas—Novel Solutions for Sustainability and Livability (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Co-Creating and Co-Designing Community-Linked Sustainable Urban Developments (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Geomatic Techniques Applied to Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems to help Urban and Land-Use Planning (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Overtourism Impacts, Climate Change and Global Warming on Islands (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Urban Ecosystem Changes and Their Social-Ecological Drivers and Effects (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Sustainable Mobility in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Reshaping the Urban Waterscape and Deep Sustainability Challenges: A Systems Transformation Perspective (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Sustainability Challenges for Medium-Size Urban Systems (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Smart City and Architecture in the Pandemic Era (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Smart City Development and Sustainability (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Urban Water Consumption and Sustainability (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Landscape Architecture Design to Promote Well-Being (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Sustainable Cities and Regions – Statistical Approaches (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Moving towards Sustainable Cities: Urban Planning and Policies for the Autonomous Mobility Age (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Sustainability and Territorial Project Assessment (Deadline: 15 October 2021)
- Constructed Natures: Shaping Ecology through Landscape Design (Deadline: 15 October 2021)
- Professional Ethics in Sustainable Construction (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- The Innovation Thinking of Urban Green on Human Health (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Social Capital, Infrastructural Capital and Resilience Capacity in Urban Systems (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Adopting Technology in Local Agriculture to Achieve Sustainable Rural Development (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Sustainable Health and Quality of Life in Urban Areas (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Sustainable Urban Design: Urban Externalities and Land Use Planning (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Climate Governance and Urban Policies (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Public Value Capture (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Urban Health and Sustainability (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- The Impact of Cooperatives in Building Rural Civil Society: Lessons from around the World (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Evidence-based Design Promoting Human Well-being in Urban Areas (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Governance Mixes for Sustainable Peri-Urbanization (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Smart Sustainable Cities in the Era of Big Data (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Sustainable Food Production and Urban Agriculture (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Smart Cities, Connected Communities, and Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Advances and New Approaches in Smart Sustainable Urbanism (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Rethinking Urban Population Density and Sustainable Cities (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Greening Cities Shaping Cities: Pinpointing Nature-Based Solutions in Cities between Shared Governance and Citizen Participation (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Smart Governance for Smart Cities, Rural Areas or Regions and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 1 December 2021)
- Urban Policies (Deadline: 10 December 2021)
- The Role of the Web in Smart City Evolution: AI, Applications and Services (Deadline: 10 December 2021)
- Habit, Cultural Landscape and Sustainability (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Thermal Comfort and Adaptation in Urban Areas (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Spatiotemporal Effects of COVID-19 to Sustainable Regional Planning and Development (Deadline: 20 December 2021)
- Sustainability of Retail-Less Cities (Deadline: 21 December 2021)
- Sustainable Transportation and Traffic in Smart Cities (Deadline: 30 December 2021)
- Globalization and Sustainable Urban-Regional Development (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Changing Economic Opportunities Across the Rural-Urban Continuum: From Remote Agricultural Regions to Large Cities (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Transaction Costs and Policy Analysis (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Traffic Emissions and Urban Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Environmental Planning (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Scales, Actors and New Power Values of Urban Governance of Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Urban Planning and Water Insecurity in the 21st Century (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Rural and Urban Management: Innovative Strategies to Enhance Resilience (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Valuing Cultural Capital in the Smart Cities Era (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Urban Design and Land Use Planning (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Green Infrastructures and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Urban Water Landscapes and Blue-Green Infrastructure (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Buildings as a Part of Efficient Urban Planning (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Comparative Urban and Regional Development in Times of Crisis (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Planning and Economic Estimative Evaluation of Models for the Management and Use of Environmental Resources in Urban and Rural Areas (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Landscape Planning and Management in Europe: Methods, Tools and Approaches (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Environmental and Transportation Planning in Rural Areas (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Bridging The Rural-Urban Divide: Towards Universally Sustainable Regional Economic Development (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Impact of Human Induced Changes in the Ecosystem: Challenges and Advances (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Urban Informatics and Applications on Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Urban Planning and Economic Development (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Urban Sustainable Development and the Idea of Creative City (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Sustainability: Urban Technology and the Climate Crisis (Deadline: 15 February 2022)
- Smart Urbanism for Everyday, Everywhere, Everything, and Everyone (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Counter Urban Migration, Commuting, and Social Sustainability in Everyday Life (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Linking Climate, Environment, and Society for Sustainable Urban Development (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Urban Sustainability in Historic Cities (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Urban Planning for Sustainable Development of Cities in the Geospatial (Big) Data ERA (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Forward Thinking Urban Forest Management for Sustainable Cities (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Housing Inequality: Causes and Potential Solutions (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Spatial Planning and Analysis in Urban Sustainability (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
