Dear Colleagues,

We have entered the human-dominated Anthropocene. With the continuous development of urbanization processes, people’s requirements and attention to urban ecological issues are also increasing. More and more people live in cities, which put pressure on the urban ecological environment. At the same time, due to the existence of ecological environmental risks such as climate change and urban environmental pollution, the contradictions and stresses between the urbanization process and ecological environment have become increasingly prominent. The current urban development is facing various problems, such as the lack of systematic optimal concepts of sustainable development. Therefore, the issue of urban ecological risk management and urban sustainable development is particularly important. We should think about how to promote the development of cities in the direction of resilience, sustainability, safety, and health in the future. In addition, we also need to establish a bottom-line thinking of urban ecological risk prevention and control, so that we can fundamentally promote the transformation of development models and expand the vision of sustainable development in response to the health and needs of people in the new era.

The studies of the Special issue are expected to address more than the following issues:

• Recent theoretical progress of sustainable urban development and urban ecological risk assessment;
• Characteristics and trends of urban ecological risk such as resource consumption, climate change, and environmental pollution;
• Impact of typical urban ecological risks on urban development, such as urban pollution, temperature change, precipitation change, extreme climate, etc.;
• Technical, economic, and policy methods of urban ecological risk management, such as developing urban ecological risk assessment models or other decision support systems;
• Urban ecological infrastructure and urban environmental planning.

Prof. Longyu Shi
Dr. Boqi Liu
Guest Editors

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• urban sustainable development
• urban ecological risk
• urban ecological infrastructure
• climate change and urban ecosystem response
• urban environmental planning