Post SARS CoV-2 - Sustainability in Urban Expansion and Urban Livelihood Change

Dear Colleagues,

From SARS CoV-2 to sustainable, great opportunity for the planet and human societies, terrible accelerator of our loss? April 2020, M. Hakovirta and N. Denuwara proposed a reflection entitled “How COVID-19 Redefines the Concept of Sustainability” ([1]) to define a fourth pillar - Human Health - in addition to three already proposed by the united nations in 2005 ([2]): economic development, social development and environmental protections ([3]). Will the "next" world then be different from the "before" world or will it be the "before” accelerated to offset the impact of the pandemic? The urban fact is as central as it is revealing with very strong regional and international disparities of how the public health crisis was handled. Did the tomorrow cities will be more “smart” to simply be “sustainable” … or no? Considering all these questions is in essence a multidisciplinary approach that one would dream of one day transdisciplinary.

This post-SARS-CoV-2 issue welcomes submissions in any topic that helps to bridge and combine perspectives on the sustainability of urban expansion and the evolution of urban lifestyles in the face of these changes coming from geographers, sociologists, psychologists, urban planners, architects, economists, science of data and information, doctors, epidemiologists, managers of public health, transport, actors and researchers, chemists, biologists, geologists, etc.

[1]     How COVID-19 Redefines the Concept of Sustainability, Marko Hakovirta and Navodya Denuwara, Sustainability 2020, 12(9), 3727.

[2]     About the Sustainable Development Goals—United Nations Sustainable Development. United Nations. Available online: www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ (accessed on 15 April 2020).

[3]     UN General Assembly. Resolution adopted by the UNGA on 16 September. Report, A/RES/60/1. 2005. Available online: https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/generalassembly/docs/globalcompact/A_RES_60_1.pdf (accessed on 12 April 2020).

Prof. Dr. Dominique Laffly
Prof. Dr. Renzhong Guo
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tu Anh Trinh
Guest Editors

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