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Special Issue on To Create Sustainable Cities: Focusing on Climate and Health
Submission Date: 2024-08-31

Rapid urbanization continues, and it is expected that by 2050, more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. This poses serious challenges to urban climate, such as the worsening urban heat islands and air pollution, which directly affects human health. Therefore, in order to create sustainable cities, it is crucial to have a deep understanding of the interaction between urban, climate, and health. To fill this gap, this special issue advocates interdisciplinary studies within the framework of ‘urban à climate à health’, providing new knowledge, technologies, strategies, and innovations for government administrators, urban planners or designers, climate policymaker or meteorological experts, and public health professionals.

Papers are solicited with the topics of interest including, but are not limited to:

    Impact of urbanization on urban climate
    Assessment of health risk associated with urban climate
    Interaction between urban, climate, and health
    Climate change, global warming, heatwaves and health
    Urbanization, urban development, and health
    Healthy cities
    Climate epidemiology
    Climate adaption, mitigation strategies and policy

Guest editors:

Prof. Qihong Deng
Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Prof. Pablo Fernández de Arróyabe Hernáez
Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Assoc Prof. Kai Zhang
University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, United States

Assoc Prof. Minal Pathak
Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India

Prof. Ayyoob Sharifi
Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan

Prof. Meng Gao
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Research Assistant Prof. Yichen Yu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Assoc Prof. Guangtao Fan
Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Manuscript submission information:

    Open for Submission: from 30-Nov-2023 to 31-Aug-2024
    Submission Site: Editorial Manager®
    Article Type Name: “VSI: Urban-Climate-Health”- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online