Environmental Impacts on Urban Health and Well-Being—Sectoral Components towards Understanding the Urban System

Dear Colleagues,

According to the conceptual model of von Szombathely et al. (2017), urban health and well-being depend on environmental stressors like urban meteorology, noise level, or air quality. As an independent and intervening sector, the morphology of a city, like the distribution of urban blue and green spaces and the infrastructure, has to be taken into account. Furthermore, urban society, in its socio-economic diversity, is as relevant as individual living and working conditions in cities. All four sectors are interrelated, resulting in a unique condition that impacts health and well-being of urban dwellers. While a great deal of sectoral knowledge has been published, the development of models and methodologies to quantitatively describe single and combined impacts of the urban system on health and well-being is still beginning.

This Special Issue shall cover publications on tools, methodologies and analyses results of all four sectors that result in a quantitative description of sectoral and multi-sectoral impacts on urban health and urban well-being. Since the sectoral impacts differ for different cities, this Special Issue focuses on intermediate sized cities of the global North (1 to 4 Million inhabitants).

Reference:

Von Szombathely, M.; Albrecht, M.; Antanaskovic, D.; Augustin, J.; Augustin, M.; Bechtel, B.; Bürk, T.; Fischereit, J.; Grawe, D.; Hoffmann, P.; Kaveckis, G.; Krefis, A.C.; Oßenbrügge, J.; Scheffran, J.; Schlünzen, K.H. A Conceptual Modeling Approach to Health-Related Urban Well-Being. Urban Sci. 2017, 1, 17. doi:10.3390/urbansci1020017.

Prof. Dr. K. Heinke Schlünzen
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Oßenbrügge
Dr. Peter Hoffmann
Guest Editors

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