Understanding the Impact of Social Environmental Stressors on Urban Health: New Analytic Solutions and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

According to the World Health Organization’s report on Climate Change and Health [1], climate change is known to have affected public health and wellbeing through its effects on the social and environmental determinants of health. Health and urban environments are closely intertwined. Overpopulation and environmental degradation due to climate change present many challenges and have caused myriad urban health consequences.

This Special Issue, entitled Understanding the Impact of Social Environmental Stressors on Urban Health: New Analytic Solutions and Challenges, embodies a wide range of urban-related topics related to socio-environmental stressors (including air pollution, noise pollution, and heat), urban heat islands, green spaces, environmental exposure and risk assessment, healthy lifestyles, and urban livability and wellbeing. It will enable readers to explore new data-driven methodologies to better the physical and psychological health impacts and their outcomes. It also aims to stimulate discussions on the technological development of the Internet of Things and the application domains of the latest geospatial data analytics. Can big data and predictive analytics improve social and environmental studies and health outcomes?

The Special Issue welcomes original research and case studies on theoretical, methodological, and innovative applications on social/environmental impacts and urban health outcomes. Theoretical and technological contributions related to the physical and psychological health effects, as well as the social implications, are welcome. We invite papers that can inform good practices with big data, geospatial technologies, and predictive analytics to address the contemporary social and environmental issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health

Prof. Dr. Paulina Wong
Prof. Dr. Kim Dirks
Dr. Qian Sun
Guest Editors

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• environmental health
• societal impact
• environmental stressors
• exposure assessment
• geospatial analysis
• big data and analytics
• GIS
• spatiotemporal modelling