About this Research Topic
Environmental performance on a global scale is becoming challenging due to climatic changes, rapid advancement and ultimately individual influence on the environment is escalating. In consequence, it leads to adverse health outcomes and sabotages the quality of life for humans. The establishment of highly sustainable and healthier ecosystems is increasingly crucial, with a stronger emphasis on disease prevention through endeavors that address its fundamental causes. Urban populations are crucial to attaining ultimate sustainability. They are home to the majority of the world's population and have significant engrossment in activities, consumption, and garbage. Over a quarter of the worldwide burden of illness may be prevented by emphasizing minimizing environmental and social risk components through optimized health promotion frameworks, enhanced preventative and sanitary practices, and better management of harmful chemicals indoors and out.
Recent technological innovations in the field of sustainable development have made it possible to lessen the hazardous effect of the built environment, utilize less non-renewable resources, produce healthier surroundings, and in some circumstances, even restore the environment. However, a plethora of research has been conducted demonstrating that adopting eco-friendly technological innovation doesn’t compel its users to behave accordingly. Many of the environmental issues that endanger environmental sustainability have their roots in human activities. Investigations that explore the impacts of human behavior in a sustainable built environment are unfortunately sparse. In our opinion, the built environment must be incorporated to meet human needs and wants while also taking into account the situation in which moral values and behaviors are fostered.
The primary goal of this Research Topic is to encourage eco-friendly behavior by making use of the social, physical, and psychological aspects of the built environment. We aim to highlight the multidisciplinary interconnections between the environment and public health, with a particular emphasis on innovative ideas and policies for advancing both sustainable growth and public health and its well-being. The overarching goal is to develop an innovative direction for analyzing human influences on the natural environment and to establish how the environment might influence people's lifestyles and activities, and consequently public health. This Special Issue invites original research and reviews papers covering, but not limited to the following topics:
• The built environment impacts on human health, including indoor and outdoor urban spaces and settings;
• Influence of technological and transdisciplinary engineering on public health and the built environment in urban settings;
• The social and psychological effects of the built environment on public health in urban settings;
• Health consequences, and/or discrepancies associated with the built environment in urban civilizations;
• Adoption of bio-healthy architecture and public health; and
• Incorporating the notion of sustainable cities and societies into an analysis of the influence of urban health.
Recent technological innovations in the field of sustainable development have made it possible to lessen the hazardous effect of the built environment, utilize less non-renewable resources, produce healthier surroundings, and in some circumstances, even restore the environment. However, a plethora of research has been conducted demonstrating that adopting eco-friendly technological innovation doesn’t compel its users to behave accordingly. Many of the environmental issues that endanger environmental sustainability have their roots in human activities. Investigations that explore the impacts of human behavior in a sustainable built environment are unfortunately sparse. In our opinion, the built environment must be incorporated to meet human needs and wants while also taking into account the situation in which moral values and behaviors are fostered.
The primary goal of this Research Topic is to encourage eco-friendly behavior by making use of the social, physical, and psychological aspects of the built environment. We aim to highlight the multidisciplinary interconnections between the environment and public health, with a particular emphasis on innovative ideas and policies for advancing both sustainable growth and public health and its well-being. The overarching goal is to develop an innovative direction for analyzing human influences on the natural environment and to establish how the environment might influence people's lifestyles and activities, and consequently public health. This Special Issue invites original research and reviews papers covering, but not limited to the following topics:
• The built environment impacts on human health, including indoor and outdoor urban spaces and settings;
• Influence of technological and transdisciplinary engineering on public health and the built environment in urban settings;
• The social and psychological effects of the built environment on public health in urban settings;
• Health consequences, and/or discrepancies associated with the built environment in urban civilizations;
• Adoption of bio-healthy architecture and public health; and
• Incorporating the notion of sustainable cities and societies into an analysis of the influence of urban health.
Keywords: built environment, public health, Urban Environmental Sustainability, Technological Innovation, Empirical and Theoretical Methods, Social and Psychological Effects, Eco-friendly Behavior
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