Innovative Approaches to Air Quality Monitoring and Health Impact Assessment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atmospheric chemistry; air quality; air pollution monitoring; environmental impact assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air quality is one of the key challenges of sustainable development, as it directly affects public health, the environment, and socio-economic processes. Despite significant progress, there is a need for innovative air quality monitoring approaches to enable the more accurate and accessible assessment of exposure and related risks.
The aim of this Special Issue is to underline the connection between innovative monitoring methods and the assessment of health effects and to offer sustainable policy guidelines. By integrating technical innovation with sustainability principles, we seek to advance actionable solutions and provide scientific insights that support environmental protection and public-health research.
This Special Issue invites original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and policy analyses that bridge cutting-edge monitoring technologies with health-impact quantification and translate the resulting evidence into sustainability-oriented policy and practice. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Global or regional inventories that embed air-quality trends within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and net-zero transition pathways.
- Circular-economy and financing models that sustain long-term monitoring and health surveillance infrastructures.
- Governance architectures—cross-sector, cross-border, and equity-focused—that institutionalize continuous air-quality improvement.
- Scenario-based assessments of how major developmental shifts concurrently affect air quality, health burdens, and economic resilience.
- Co-benefit accounting frameworks that prioritize air-quality improvements alongside carbon mitigation and biodiversity targets.
Prof. Dr. Elvira Kovač-Andrić
Prof. Dr. Vlatka Gvozdić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air quality monitoring
- health impact assessment
- sustainable development
- sensor technologies
- exposure assessment
- risk assessment
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