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The 2nd Edition of Urban Environmental Quality

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 3933

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Man Sing Wong

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Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Interests: urban heat island effect; urban environmental quality; landslides; vegetation and ecosystems; spectral mixture analysis; aerosol retrieval; air quality monitoring; water vapor retrieval
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Dr. Rui Zhu

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Senseable City Laboratory, Future Urban Mobility IRG, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore
Interests: urban mobility; spatiotemporal data modeling; urban heat island; solar cities
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The urban environment has long been associated with community health risks. However, quantifying environmental exposure to measure urban environmental quality is always a challenge, since environmental components of the complex system across the urban environment are interacting with each other. Moreover, failure to quantify the environmental quality can result in a problematic estimation of environmental health risks.

Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on the following topics:

1) Improvement of exposure assessments for measuring urban environmental quality;

2) Linking indoor and outdoor environmental exposures by modeling;

3) Novel design to spatially or spatiotemporally estimate urban environmental quality;

4) Application of community health assessment with improved data for urban environmental quality.

Dr. Man Sing Wong
Dr. Rui Zhu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • environmental exposures
  • spatial modeling
  • community health

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Thermal and Humidity Effect of Urban Green Spaces with Different Shapes: A Case Study of Shanghai, China
by Hongyu Du, Fengqi Zhou, Wenbo Cai, Yongli Cai and Yanqing Xu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(11), 5941; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph18115941 - 01 Jun 2021
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Research shows that urban green spaces (UGSs) provide a number of positive effects, including enhancing human thermal comfort levels by decreasing air temperature (AT) and increasing relative humidity (RH). However, research on how the shape of an UGS influences these effects is yet [...] Read more.
Research shows that urban green spaces (UGSs) provide a number of positive effects, including enhancing human thermal comfort levels by decreasing air temperature (AT) and increasing relative humidity (RH). However, research on how the shape of an UGS influences these effects is yet to be explored. This paper explores the principles and features behind this. The AT and RH surrounding an UGS within a horizontal scale of 20 m was explored. Microclimate field measurements around 35 UGSs in Shanghai, China were carried out. The samples covered the most applied types of UGSs—punctiform, linear, and planar. Comparison spots were selected away from the sampled UGSs. The effects were studied by data collection and statistical analysis. The results indicate that the shape of the UGS had significant impact on the Temperature Humidity Index (THI). In the summer, the amplitude of THI variation decreases with the distance to UGS. For punctiform UGS, a larger total area and existence of water body results in a lower THI. A wider, linear UGS with the same orientation as the direction of the prevailing wind contributes more to decrease the surrounding THI. The total area of planar UGS is not critical. A higher landscape shape index of a planar UGS is the critical point to achieve a lower THI. The results can serve as a reference when planning and designing future UGSs. Full article
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