Climate Change, Air Pollution and Environmental Health
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 80
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental epidemiology; particularly ambient air quality; climate change; environmental chemical mixtures and health outcomes; health Inequality; particularly sociodemographically vulnerable and biologically susceptible subpopulations
Interests: pediatric environmental epidemiology with a focus on maternal and pediatric exposure to various environmental toxins/toxicants (e.g. lead, perfluorinated compounds, and phthalates) the impact on immune dysfunction; endocrine disruption; respiratory disease; vaccine response; allergy and breastfeeding success
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing anthropogenic activities are causing substantial changes in the climate and air quality with direct and indirect impacts on humans. Climate change and air pollution pose unique and unprecedented global challenges that threaten the sustainability of the planet and human health. Understanding these changes and their impact on planetary and human health should be of paramount importance as this could be considered the ‘climate or environmental change pandemic’ and deserves emergency action. Emerging epidemiologic evidence suggests environmental exposures as potential key risk factors for health outcomes across the life-course. A deeper understanding of the complex interplay between the changing climate, air pollution, and health outcomes to decipher the causal pathways and interventions are essential to saving the climate and promoting healthy present and future generations. Hence this Special Issue calls for submissions from multidisciplinary researchers across the globe to contribute their novel and ground-breaking findings to expand our knowledge and interventional approaches on this critical topic. Exposure–outcome associations, biological mechanisms, and related interventional studies on air pollution and climate change-associated events such as extreme temperatures (e.g., heatwaves and cold spells), droughts, cyclones, hurricanes, floods, and wildfires (bushfires) and their impacts on human health are invited.
Dr. Sylvester Dodzi Nyadanu
Dr. Marina Oktapodas Feiler
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- temperature
- heatwaves
- cold spells
- air pollutants
- wildfires
- natural disasters
- public health
- health effects
- epidemiology
- climate policies
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