Special Issue "Built Environment, Human Health and Well-Being in a Transitional World"

Dear Colleagues,

Many rich and diversified studies have flourished in recent years for exploring the relationships between the built environment and health, well-being, health-related behaviors and health inequalities. Strong evidence has been provided revealing the significant influence of the built environment (urban form, design, density and diversity in particular) on active mobility, eating habits, air quality, noise, and consequently on health and well-being. This topic is intrinsically interdisciplinary, involving, e.g., geographers, urban planners, epidemiologists, economists, engineers, and still needs more and more attention from scholars for better disentangling these complex and interrelated links and providing relevant, efficient and manageable public health recommendations. Cities worldwide should consider human health and well-being as a major part of the integrated and sustainable urban system in their coming planning policies, and scholars have an important role to play in these transformations, as advisors.

We welcome in this issue any original studies contributing to raising our understanding of the relationships between the built environment and human health worldwide, and its impact on health inequalities whether from theory or data-driven perspectives. Studies can be based on transversal, longitudinal or experimental data. Methodological papers dealing with comparisons of such protocols, exposition measure issues, or spatial heterogeneity and causality modeling, are also willingly welcomed. 

Prof. Dr. Thierry Feuillet
Dr. Hélène Charreire
Guest Editors

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• built environment
• health
• well-being
• physical activity
• active mobility
• nutritional behaviors
• environmental exposure (air quality, noise level)
• urban planning
• cities