Urban and Public Policy against COVID-19
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2021) | Viewed by 32196
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land use–transportation–environment interactions; chronic diseases; obesity; physical activity; well-being; urban parks; ageing; gerontology; active travel; traffic safety; risk perception; leisure and tourism; spatial analysis; survey methods; meta-analysis
Interests: sustainable water resources planning; river restoration; socio-hydrology; flood mitigation; tourism in water resources management; water governance
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Dear Colleagues,
The start of the 2020s was arguably defined by chaos across the world, with the novel COVID-19 at the focal point. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the severity of the viral spread had reached pandemic proportions. The main focus of the exploratory Special Issue is to examine varying approaches to implementation and enforcement of physical/social distancing measures given the respective historical and evolving social norms in multi-national areas that rely heavily on tourism money for a healthy economy. This Special Issue welcomes both conceptual and empirical contributions that may conduce to the evaluation of social relationships after COVID-19 social distancing, social phenomena beyond the pandemic, public quarantine policy, regional infections, sustainable tourism trends in the New Normal Pandemic era, and new patterns of the national exchange due to border closures.
Authors from different disciplines such as public policy, health policy, social theory, and other related disciplines are invited to submit their manuscripts. Multidisciplinary research that covers a diversity of urban and public health policy perspectives is particularly appreciated. Submissions could relate, but are not limited, to the following topics:
- Quarantine policy: cross-regional comparative case study;
- Sustainable eco-tourism in the pandemic era;
- Measuring performance in contactless education and teaching;
- Innovative quarantine policy;
- New type of governance models beyond COVID-19;
- Spatial analysis and modeling on COVID-19 quarantine policy trend, applying machine learning;
- New global business models after the national isolation policy.
Dr. Tae-Hyoung (Tommy) Gim
Dr. Chang-Yu Hong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- quarantine policy
- sustainable eco-tourism
- governance models beyond COVID-19
- urban remote contactless education
- transnational comparative case study
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