Advances in Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient, and Sustainable Built Environment, 2nd Edition

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This Topic is the second edition of the Topic titled “Advances in Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient, and Sustainable Built Environment” (https://www.mdpi.com/topics/2R8MBS9PE1).

Cities and communities are the main human settlements. They are expected to provide citizens with inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable production and living environments. Under most conditions, cities and communities can meet these needs well, but there are many gaps because of improper planning, design, construction, operation, and management, reducing urban quality, productivity, human health, and well-being. For instance, climate-related impacts are increasingly intense, severe, and frequent, while many cities and communities cannot mitigate, alleviate, and avoid threats of extreme climate events (e.g., heat waves, cyclones, floods, and drought). Moreover, many cities and communities are not appropriately planned and designed, leading to air quality reduction, heat islands, extensive carbon emission, lack of public space, and psychological illnesses. There is a need to improve, refine, and upgrade the paradigm of urban planning and design, building design and construction, and operation, management and maintenance to enhance human settlements' environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Therefore, this Topic aims to advance knowledge of the theory, methods, and practices to create low-carbon, climate-resilient, and sustainable built environments to address climate change, urbanization, economic growth, environmental deterioration, and human health and well-being challenges. It will build a platform for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders from multiple disciplines, including urban–rural planning, architecture and civil engineering, landscape architecture, urban design, building sciences, construction management, environmental sciences and management, urban climate, and geography, to publish their latest academic results and findings.

Relevant themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Urban environmental impact assessment;
• Urban climate resilience and disaster risk;
• Human comfort, health, and well-being;
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation;
• Nature-based solutions;
• Sustainable land use and planning;
• Decarbonization of the built environment;
• Policies, regulations, and initiatives for climate resilience;
• Human-oriented environmental design;
• Ecological safety and green space health;
• Sustainable Development Goals and urban development.

Prof. Dr. Dongxu Zhang
Prof. Stephen Siu Yu Lau
Prof. Dr. Deshun Zhang
Prof. Dr. Fei Guo
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Atmosphere atmosphere	2.6	5.4	2010	20.4 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Buildings buildings	3.4	5.6	2011	14.7 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Climate climate	4.0	6.5	2013	20.5 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Land land	3.5	6.4	2012	16.4 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Remote Sensing remotesensing	4.3	9.4	2009	22 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	4.1	8.9	2009	16.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit

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