Environmental Health Surveillance and Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Cities and Society
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 January 2024) | Viewed by 674
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Interests: urban climate and population/community health; neighborhood environment and urban health; environmental exposure and health assessments
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Interests: urban remote sensing; ecological remote sensing; GIS; extensive data analysis; natural resource remote sensing monitoring and assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The frequency and severity of environmental hazards have increased due to environmental changes. Environmental hazards not only influence the geophysical environment but also negatively affect human lives and local society. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has suggested that governments, partners and communities are brought together to reduce disaster risk and losses and to ensure a safer, more sustainable future. This includes a reduction in health and economic risks across societies by increasing the resilience of cities. However, there are research gaps regarding the development of planning protocols for disaster risk management. These include 1) how to apply sophisticated methods for health planning and risk management; 2) how to determine data quality for environmental health surveillance; and 3) how to link theoretical research to action plans. Particularly, The spatiotemporal variation across locales may also increase the challenges of environmental health surveillance, as there is an inequality due to different levels of deprivation and vulnerability across locales; however, using certain methods and data might yield good predictive results.
This Special Issue aims to focus the following areas:
(1) innovative framework or advanced methods for environmental health surveillance and disaster risk management.
(2) uncertainty of data and methods for environmental health surveillance and disaster risk management.
(3) linkage between research and action plans for sustainable planning and health surveillance.
Dr. Hung Chak Ho
Prof. Dr. Zhifeng Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental health
- disaster risk
- environmental impact assessment
- sustainable planning
- urban environmental problems
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