Climate Change, Air Pollution and Sustainable Environmental Protection
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 1040
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coupled human-nature interactions; urban climate; big data analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Interactions between climate change and air pollution result in environmental changes that present a significant threat to modern society. Climate change encompasses long-term alterations in global or regional climate patterns, prominently characterized by rising surface temperatures. Accelerating climate change has a significant impact on energy consumption as well as public health through increasing energy demands for cooling systems, increasing reliance on non-renewable energy sources, and amplifying health risks such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. These outcomes induce underpinnings that have implications for our communities. With such a well-known phenomenon, there is an increasing body of evidence that suggests that the impacts of climate change and air pollution are not distributed equally across populations and regions. Thus, it is important to elucidate these research questions to gain a comprehensive understanding of the impacts of climatic and air quality.
This Special Issue aims to analyze the aforementioned phenomena in a multidisciplinary way and to present a pipeline of research that can be used as a basis for decision-making to achieve a sustainable environment for future generations. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, reviews and original research in the following: (1) analyzing urban climate and air quality using advanced methodologies, such as sensor data, spatial big data, numerical simulations, and artificial intelligence/machine learning; (2) exploring coupled human–nature interactions with climate change/air pollution; (3) investigating the impacts of climate change on air quality; and (4) delving into the relationships between environmental quality and people under big umbrella of environmental justice.
Dr. BumSeok Chun
Dr. Shobha Yadav
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- air quality
- urban climate
- extreme weather
- machine leaning/artificial intelligence
- remote sensing application
- environmental justice
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