Climate Change and Sustainability: Health Risks and Policies to Address Them—Special Focus on Urban Settings
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 545
Special Issue Editors
2. Faculty of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
3. Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
Interests: global environmental change (GEC); environmental justice; climate justice; environmental ethics; environmental policy
Interests: urban planning; urban governance; urban health; climate change adaptation; disaster risk reduction; socio-environmental justice
2. Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Interests: urbanization; urban demographic change; IPCC climate adaptation group
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is one of the key challenges facing our planet. Towns and cities are often the generators of changes in the climate through urban consumption patterns and emissions, but they are also the places where the impacts of climate change may be the most severe. Climate impacts are not evenly distributed. Citizens of towns and cities, particularly in the Global South, are amongst the most vulnerable to climate impacts. Climate justice is a key element of this challenge.
The aim of this Special Issue is to invite the submission of research articles which address the complex challenges of climate changes facing towns and cities globally. As a transdisciplinary journal, Sustainability encourages researchers to present work from inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary science, and we particularly welcome studies from towns and cities in the Global South.
In this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Trends in urbanization and shifting health profiles due to climate change;
- Vulnerability of populations in towns and cities to climate change;
- Urban disasters related to climate changes: health impacts and responses;
- Impacts of climate change on urban health, including on low-income urban dwellers;
- Reducing the contribution of cities to global climate change;
- Effects of urban climate change on sustainability;
- Policy responses of cities to climate change;
- Climate justice, ethics, and sustainability in the context of urbanization.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Carolyn Stephens
Dr. Donald Brown
Prof. Dr. David Satterthwaite
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban sustainability
- climate change
- urban health
- climate justice
