Urban Spaces, Environmental Exposures, Public Health, and Human Wellbeing
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 82424
Special Issue Editor
Interests: healthy city; urban built environment; big data; urban planning
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Dear Colleagues,
COVID-19 has put forward higher requirements for urban spatial health, and the study of healthy cities has once again become the focus of multidisciplines. Environmental problems such as air pollution, water pollution, and traffic congestion caused by rapid urbanization, industrialization, and motorization are endangering human wellbeing. Meanwhile, economic and social development has changed residents’ modes of transportation and physical activity, and chronic diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease have become prominent. Urban space has a direct or indirect effect on public health and human wellbeing. However, public health is affected by multiple complex factors and pathways, and most of the existing research results are single-element and fragmented, which brings challenges to the implementation of health-oriented spatial planning. From the perspective of the interaction between environmental exposure and physical activity, we aim to construct a relatively complete theoretical framework model between urban spaces, public health, and human wellbeing and propose health-oriented planning techniques. Studies can link environmental exposure with physical activity through the spatial–time behaviors of residents and explore how urban space influences public health and human wellbeing by affecting air pollution, the heat island effect, noise pollution, healthy food, green landscape, and physical activity.
Dr. Man Yuan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban built environment
- physical health
- mental health
- physical activities
- spatial–time behavior
- environmental exposure
- urban planning
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