Interactions between Urban Morphology, Thermal Environment, and Energy Consumption: Towards a Sustainable Environment
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 April 2023) | Viewed by 2615
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban climatic applications; carbon emission; building energy use modeling
Interests: urban thermal environment; urban morphology; sustainable urban design or planning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cities are key to overcoming climate change because they account for about 64% of total global primary energy use and produce over 70% of total carbon emissions from energy activities. This contribution is expected to increase due to accelerated urbanization and intensive industrial activities. Rapid urban development has caused changing climate conditions and has increased building energy use, which can further exacerbate heat-related health issues.
A comprehensive understanding of the impacts of urban morphology on the thermal environment and energy use is fundamental for formulating city planning and space optimization policies to increase cities’ resilience to the local impacts of climate change. Therefore, interdisciplinary knowledge from fields including energy, climatology, environmental science, and urban planning is required to achieve more effective actions in climate adaptation. Accordingly, emerging research has been conducted to investigate the potential for adjusting and optimizing urban morphologies to improve the urban thermal environment and energy efficiency, using numeric simulations, data-driven approaches, satellite monitoring, and projections of future scenarios.
This proposed Special Issue aims to provide cutting-edge and in-depth knowledge on the interactions between urban morphology, the thermal environment, and energy consumption, with a particular emphasis on constructing a solid foundation for achieving environmental sustainability from a design practice perspective (i.e., optimizing urban morphology). We believe that this Special Issue will advance current urban planning and city design guidelines, standards, and regulations in creating climate-resilient and energy-efficient cities.
Urban-based and community-level studies are preferred. We welcome the submission of original research articles covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Advanced models, analytical tools, and methodologies for simulating urban thermal environment and energy consumption.
- Interactions between urban morphology, the thermal environment, and energy consumption.
- Sustainable city design for climate resilience, energy saving, and healthy living.
- Heat- and energy-related risk assessment and early heat warnings in cities.
- Impacts of thermal environment or energy use on public health.
- Projections of the future built environment, thermal environment, and energy consumption.
Dr. Meng Cai
Dr. Ran Wang
Dr. Guangzhao Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban morphology
- thermal environment
- energy consumption
- sustainable city design
- climate change
- heatwave
- public health
- climate-sensitive planning
- environmental risk assessment
