Sustainable Urban Environments for Human Health

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-40407-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 375 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Sustainable Urban Environments for Human Health brings together the ideas underlying frameworks for energy sustainability, urbanization, and human health in a single resource. As the modern world struggles with multiplying crises relating to energy, economic, environmental and public health issues, this book focuses on the synergies by identifying, understanding and anticipating future perspectives, opportunities and challenges for ensuring resilience in a rapidly changing human-driven world. The themes of the book include Ecological Urban Planning for Health, Renewable Energy in Urban Environments, Air Quality, Energy & Respiratory Health, Green Infrastructure & Health, Active Transportation & Health, Energy Equity and Social Determinants of Health, Urban Agriculture, Food Systems, & Energy, and Urban Waste Management & Impact on Human Health. The book caters to researchers, academics, public health professionals and practitioners, policymakers and urban planners and aims to find solutions to the mounting problems of urban cities, taking into account their residents physical and mental health, while preserving biodiversity in urban areas. Written by experts comprising of complementary disciplines covered in this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Nidhi

Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna M

Singh, Pardeep

Verma, Pramit

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Conceptual Framework for Urban Planning and Human Well-being
2. Role of Green Spaces, Waterfronts, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainable land use in Promoting Urban Health and Well-being
3. Assessing the Impact of Renewable Energy Sources and Ecosystems
4. Exploring Energy Cultures, their Economic, and Socio-economic Determinants, and Challenges in Renewable Energy Transitions
5. Patters of Energy Transition and Post-carbon Energy Culture Development
6. Investigating the link between Urban Air Quality, Energy Consumption, and Respiratory Health
7. Strategies to reduce Air Pollution through Sustainable Energy Practices in Households, Economy, and Urban Mobility
8. Psychological Benefits of Green Infrastructure on Urban Residents
9. Exploring the Relationships between Energy-efficient Buildings and Occupant Well-being
10. Therapeutic Landscapes as places for everyday Health Promotion, conducive to restoring Physical and Mental Health
11. Vector Borne Diseases and Human Well-being in Urban Settlements
12. Water Borne Diseases and Human Well-being in Urban Settlements
13. Health Implications of Sustainable / Green Transportation Modes
14. Energy-efficient Public Transportation Promoting Urban Health
15. Disparities in Energy Access and its Impact on Social Determinants of Health
16. Strategies for Equitable Distribution of Sustainable Energy Benefits
17. Investigating the Role of Urban Agriculture in Sustainable Energy Practices
18. Exploring the Connections between Local Food Systems, Energy Efficiency and Community Health
19. How Effective Management of Urban Waste can impact Human Health
20. Transdisciplinary Frameworks of Urban Energy and Health Research

Über Autor(innen)

Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna M
Prof. Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk works at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun. She is a member of the Nicolaus Copernicus University Centre of Excellence IMSErt: Interacting Minds, Societies, Environments, and the team PSE: People, Space, and Environment. Her research focuses on: socio-spatial aspects of energy transition, renewables, biogas, sustainability, smart and resilience ideas, local development, embeddedness, urban mobility, adaptation to climate change, energy policy, environmental awareness, biodiversity, and just transition. She's author and co-author of over 100 scientific works - monographs and scientific articles, in leading scientific journals. She has been the Subject Editor of the Bulletin of Geography. She carries out numerous national and international research projects as a leader and initiator. She was a member of the International Energy SHIFTS RENEWABLES Horizon 2020 working group, which worked on the social aspects of energy transition.

Singh, Pardeep
Dr Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India in 2011. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi in the year 2017. The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management.

Singh, Nidhi
Dr. Nidhi Singh's currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany. She obtained her Master's and PhD in Environmental Science from Banaras Hindu University, India. Her field of research is Environmental Epidemiology, with a main focus on studying the effect of climate and air pollution on different health outcomes such as morbidity and mortality associated with respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders such as depression and skin ageing and Melanoma. Dr. Singh has worked on various other projects in diverse research fields such as Climate Change/Agro meteorology/Climate modelling/Vector-borne diseases. Dr. Singh has received various awards and travel grants and is also a team member of the EU-Horizon Project (MELCAYA). She is an invited speaker at various national and international conferences and member of various academic societies, a new career research Editor and a reviewer of various top journals in her field.

Verma, Pramit
Dr. Pramit Verma is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He completed his PhD from the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2021. He is currently working in the field of Urban Ecology. He has also worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management. He has published several research articles and a technical report while participating in various national and international conferences, workshops and seminars. He is also working on the socioeconomic dynamics governing urban energy and urban land use in secondary cities of India.