Healthier Cities in Changing Urban Landscapes
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 December 2020) | Viewed by 10457
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Interests: vector-borne pathogens; reservoirs of infection; control strategies
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Dear Colleagues,
Within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change framework, there have been recent parallel developments of warming scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways) based on greenhouse gases and other radiative forcings that could occur by the end of the century on the one hand and on the other, Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) that look at different scenarios in which the world might evolve in the absence of climate policy. These SSPs deal with sustainability and broader emphasis on human well-being through increasing scenarios of social inequality and nationalistic-driven policies to a fossil-fuel filled future with an emphasis on innovation and technological solutions to environmental problems associated with an energy-intensive development. Combined, these scenarios suggest how different levels of climate change mitigation can be achieved.
Complementary to such climate scenarios, better quantitative frameworks are needed to more fully understand how climate change will impact human health in regards with other global changes.
Beside climate change, the growth of urban populations worldwide is the other major change observed in the 20th and 21st century, since more than half of the human population now resides in cities. For human health, constant affluent of population not properly integrated in urban planning, rise of pollution, increasing mobility patterns, densification, and urban heat island can clearly impact the health of urban dwellers. While most cities are currently ill-prepared to face the health impacts of current and future change, it is crucial to understand how changes induced by urbanisation, climate change, and health are interconnected to better tackle these threats.
In this respect, this Special Issue addresses the urgent need to put the urban environment and associated disparities in human health at the center of any future SSP scenarios and potential mitigation strategies for adaptation to our changing world. Research being done in this field can now take advantage of the complex and increasingly detailed geographical, environmental, and epidemiological data available within cities and for networks of interconnected urban areas. These data can clearly help in quantifying the interrelated evolutions of climate changes (urban heat island, increase in temperatures) induced by urbanisation (rural urban migration, daily commuting movement of the population between and within cities, social and environmental disparities, densification of spaces…) and human health (infectious and vector borne diseases, respiratory diseases).
Dr. Richard Paul
Dr. Olivier Telle
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Urban public health
- Socio-economic disparities
- Disease mitigation
- Adaptation strategies
