Environmental Monitoring Techniques for Climate Change Resilient Cities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 331
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban resilience; urban microclimate; urban sustainability; sustainable development; energy efficiency in building; built environment; building technology; environmental monitoring; wearable sensing; human comfort; multi-domain comfort; crowdsensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The on-going climate change and the urbanization trend highlights an urgent need to undertake tailored adaptation and mitigation strategies to be effectively implemented in cities all around the world. Urban morphology and metabolism alter the energy balance of cities and the atmospheric chemistry, resulting in hazardous conditions for human health and in high energy expenditure of the building stock to keep comfortable indoor environments. Environmental detriment of urban areas is further exacerbated by extreme weather events, such as heat waves or extreme precipitation patterns that are expected to be more frequent and intense in the coming decades due to climate change. Additionally, urban structure complexity and the density of anthropogenic activities in cities generate highly heterogeneous conditions that require a fine-grain spatial investigation for deploying tailored interventions in a resilient planning perspective.
In this view, the implementation of proper monitoring techniques for detecting urban environmental complexity palys a key role in the pathways of our cities towards a more sustainable and healthier future. Environmental data collection and data processing must support local authorities in the development of context-specific solutions, but along with the need of granularity in data gathering, long-term data series and large-scale analysis are necessary for disclosing the effects of complex structures on the environment. This is the reason why only the combination of diversified monitoring techniques (satellite, mobile environmental transect, fix weather stations networks, etc.) could be beneficial, but how to implement an effective environmental monitoring plan of the urban environment is still an under-investigated topic.
This Special Issue aims to collect research works that foster innovation in collecting, managing, and processing environmental data retrieved by different sensing technologies for leading the urban resilience planning with specific attention on citizens’ wellbeing enanchement. We welcome critical, conceptual and empirical papers that explore potentials in urban resilience planning through the implementation of diversified data gathering techniques.
Dr. Ilaria Pigliautile
Dr. Ioannis Kousis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban microclimate investigation
- urban air quality mapping
- urban environmental risks mapping
- urban anthropogenic heat detection
- early warning systems for cities
- urban climate modelling
- citizens’ well-being
