Sustainable Built Environment Management and Urban Public Health Outcomes

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue entitled “Sustainable Built Environment Management and Urban Public Health Outcomes” aims to bridge the knowledge from public health experts to designers (architects and urban planners), or from policy-makers to local health agencies, and vice-versa, addressing the capabilities of the built environment to promote and protect health and well-being, and to boost actions and policies aimed to transform our cities into healthier and “salutogenic” living environments.

Huge global changes are occurring on our planet in natural and urban environments. Climate change, demographic trends, urbanization phenomena, and numerous other environmental and social issues form serious challenges to preserving a healthy future on a global scale. It is necessary to take urgent actions that are forthcoming by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, UN) and for the reduction of environmental risk factors such as pollution, heat island effect (HIE), solid waste management, water management, etc.

Moreover, the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, which has now exceeded 29 million notified infections world-wide (4 million in the EU) and about 900,000 deaths (210,000 deaths in the EU), is a strong reminder that urbanization has changed the way that people and communities live, work, and interact, and it is necessary to make the systems and local capacities resilient to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. How we can redesign the concept of public health in relation to the built environment and the contemporary cities?

This research question represents the scope/purpose of this Special Issue, aiming to include narrative contributions of experiences, literature reviews, policies and actions discussion, and best practices—both experienced and evidence-based.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Rebecchi
Prof. Dr. Marija Jevtic
Guest Editors

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