Dear Colleagues,

What is the impact of the environment on population wellbeing? Why is it important? To date, COVID-19 continues to be a challenge to global public health. The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health emergency with a severe aftermath for human health and wellbeing. However, it can also serve as an example that changes in human interaction with the environment can improve air and noise quality and can reduce our carbon footprint, which leads to improved environmental health. In fact, the environment affects our health in a variety of ways. These environmental impacts can affect human health in many ways, including both short-term and long-term effects. Among these threats is an increasing incidence of allergies and cancer caused by air pollution, land, and water. How does a pandemic lockdown distress the environment of the city and what is its effect on human wellbeing? Climate change is also posing risks to human population health and wellbeing, affecting, for example, allergies, extreme heat, and outbreaks of infectious disease caused by habitat disruption. These phenomena that affect particularly urban areas, in a pandemic context, are often difficult to characterize, predict and mitigate.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences journal (ISSN 2076-3417; impact factor: 2.679) aims to provide a forum to discuss the new and old environmental impacts on human well-being, learning from the present health crisis and from past ones. Methodologically, conceptual approaches and empirical ones will be accepted.

Topics of interest include:

• Evolution of studies about the environment and population wellbeing;
• Impact of the environment on population wellbeing;
• New and old environmental impacts on human wellbeing;
• Pandemic impacts in human wellbeing;
• Solutions to environmental health issues;
• Health impacts due to climate change;
• Methods to measure how to population interact with the environment;
• Methods and practices to mitigate environmental effects on human wellbeing;
• Changes in environmental pollution due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

Prof. Dr. Lígia Torres Silva
Prof. Dr. Paula Remoaldo
Dr. Juliana Araújo Alves
Guest Editors

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• environmental impacts
• noise, air and water pollution
• land-use conflicts
• outdoor events
• pandemics