The built environment plays important roles in moderating the effects of sporadic public health and environmental events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme weather disasters due to climate change. These public health and climate risks, combined with other unprecedented events, have brought significant impacts on people’s daily behaviors (e.g., human activities and mobility), quality of life, and living environments. Adaptive planning of built environment thus needs to consider deep uncertainties from such health and environmental risks and to understand the dynamics behind individual responses to particular events that vary by built environment features and vulnerable groups, helping us design safe, resilient, and comfortable living environments across neighborhoods and cities. This demonstrates the urgency to investigate the adaptive built environment for sustainable behaviors in response to threats posed to public health, climate change, and other kinds of security.
This Research Topic aims to collect built environment planning studies related to any public health and environmental events, with new conceptual and analytical perspectives, coupling with new data and/or methods. Drawing on the lack of knowledge on how people in varying built environments react differently to different public health and environmental threats, empirical and planning practice studies around the world are particularly welcome for comparison. The rise of big data on responsive built environment and behaviors, combined with advanced analytical approaches such as machine learning and spatiotemporal modeling, has the potential to deal with the complications of the adaptation process that are less observed by small-sample and short-term data. It also calls for multidisciplinary innovations on theory, methodology and policy-making practice, across the fields of built environment, public health, environmental science, urban planning, and geography.
The Research Topic welcomes high-quality contributions in the form of Original Research, Brief Research Report, Opinion, Perspective, Review, Systematic Review and Mini Review papers, with a focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Adaptive built environment for sustainable behaviors;
• Impact of public health or environmental events on built environments;
• Impact of public health or environmental events on human behaviors/quality of life in varying built environments;
• Moderated roles of built environments in risk reduction;
• Adaptative planning and design of built environment;
• Adaptative planning of transport infrastructure and facilities;
• Application of big data and/or advanced analytical approaches in addressing the aforementioned topics.
The built environment plays important roles in moderating the effects of sporadic public health and environmental events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme weather disasters due to climate change. These public health and climate risks, combined with other unprecedented events, have brought significant impacts on people’s daily behaviors (e.g., human activities and mobility), quality of life, and living environments. Adaptive planning of built environment thus needs to consider deep uncertainties from such health and environmental risks and to understand the dynamics behind individual responses to particular events that vary by built environment features and vulnerable groups, helping us design safe, resilient, and comfortable living environments across neighborhoods and cities. This demonstrates the urgency to investigate the adaptive built environment for sustainable behaviors in response to threats posed to public health, climate change, and other kinds of security.
This Research Topic aims to collect built environment planning studies related to any public health and environmental events, with new conceptual and analytical perspectives, coupling with new data and/or methods. Drawing on the lack of knowledge on how people in varying built environments react differently to different public health and environmental threats, empirical and planning practice studies around the world are particularly welcome for comparison. The rise of big data on responsive built environment and behaviors, combined with advanced analytical approaches such as machine learning and spatiotemporal modeling, has the potential to deal with the complications of the adaptation process that are less observed by small-sample and short-term data. It also calls for multidisciplinary innovations on theory, methodology and policy-making practice, across the fields of built environment, public health, environmental science, urban planning, and geography.
The Research Topic welcomes high-quality contributions in the form of Original Research, Brief Research Report, Opinion, Perspective, Review, Systematic Review and Mini Review papers, with a focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Adaptive built environment for sustainable behaviors;
• Impact of public health or environmental events on built environments;
• Impact of public health or environmental events on human behaviors/quality of life in varying built environments;
• Moderated roles of built environments in risk reduction;
• Adaptative planning and design of built environment;
• Adaptative planning of transport infrastructure and facilities;
• Application of big data and/or advanced analytical approaches in addressing the aforementioned topics.
