Win-Win Strategies for Climate Resilience and Air Pollution Control

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and air pollution are the main challenges of the 21st century, and they are closely related. The international initiatives and the EU’s strict and ambitious strategies to tackle those problems, emphasizing urgent action to adapt to climate change, to mitigate its already felt impacts, and to reduce air pollution for environment and health protection, towards cleaner, greener, and healthier ecosystems and societies. 

Multiscale, multidisciplinary, and systemic approaches are needed to better inform citizens and stakeholders and to effectively support decision-makers in implementing win-win strategies to increase climate resilience and simultaneously improve air quality, and consequently health and wellbeing, strengthening the “air pollution–climate change” co-benefit. By doing that, the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations, namely SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SSG 13 (Climate Action) can be pursued.

As Guest Editor of the Sustainability Special Issue “Win-Win Strategies for Climate Resilience and Air Pollution Control”, I kindly invite you to publish your emerging research on this topic.

Your contribution, covering (but not limited to) the following research aspects will make a difference!

• Climate change and air pollution impacts;
• Adaptation and mitigation strategies;
• Win-win integrated strategies to tackle climate change and air pollution;
• Cost–benefit analysis of integrated strategies;
• Nature-based solutions as win-win strategies;
• Successfully implemented strategies—case studies with replication potential.

Please submit your research or review paper at your earliest convenience, but no later than March 15^th, 2022. 

Dr. Joana Ferreira
Dr. Sandra Rafael
Dr. Susana Cardoso Pereira
Dr. David Carvalho
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• climate resilience
• adaptation
• mitigation
• emission reduction strategies
• carbon neutrality
• air quality impacts
• health impacts
• integrated assessment studies
• decision-making
• policy-support
• cost–benefit analysis
• nature-based solutions