About this Research Topic
Environmental degradation encompasses more than just climate change and biodiversity loss. Air, water, and food pollution adversely affect human health, leading to issues such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, infertility, mental disorders, and cancer. Urban areas, often economic hubs, are particularly vulnerable due to pollutants like heavy metals and fine particulate matter.
While the link between pollution and health is well-documented, its broader social and economic impacts remain less understood. These impacts can include reduced workforce productivity, higher public health costs, and declining regional attractiveness due to poor environmental conditions. These factors contribute to deteriorating community well-being, shrinking populations, and a less favorable business climate.
Addressing these challenges is urgent, yet gaps in the literature persist. This Research Topic aims to bridge these gaps by highlighting the transformative potential of innovation. Innovation can mitigate environmental harm, enhance public policy effectiveness, and turn challenges into opportunities for growth and resilience.
This Research Topic will examine the complex relationship between environmental pollution, health, and socioeconomic impacts, with a focus on the role of innovation. We welcome contributions exploring the following themes:
• Policy innovations for environmental health: Developing policies that balance environmental degradation and economic priorities.
• Social and economic costs of pollution-related health issues: How innovation can address the societal and economic burdens of pollution.
• Social and economic impact of climate change mitigation: Evaluating the broader consequences of policies aimed at reducing environmental harm.
• Public health initiatives in degraded environments: Innovative approaches to managing health risks in polluted areas.
• Innovations for public health: Exploring how innovations can enhance public health in environmentally compromised areas.
• Green Technology and job creation: Understanding how eco-friendly technologies can drive economic growth and create jobs.
Each of these topics will provide insights into the interplay between the environment, health, society, and the economy, emphasizing innovation's crucial role in addressing these global challenges. This Research Topic will serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to present solutions that contribute to a healthier and more sustainable future.
While the link between pollution and health is well-documented, its broader social and economic impacts remain less understood. These impacts can include reduced workforce productivity, higher public health costs, and declining regional attractiveness due to poor environmental conditions. These factors contribute to deteriorating community well-being, shrinking populations, and a less favorable business climate.
Addressing these challenges is urgent, yet gaps in the literature persist. This Research Topic aims to bridge these gaps by highlighting the transformative potential of innovation. Innovation can mitigate environmental harm, enhance public policy effectiveness, and turn challenges into opportunities for growth and resilience.
This Research Topic will examine the complex relationship between environmental pollution, health, and socioeconomic impacts, with a focus on the role of innovation. We welcome contributions exploring the following themes:
• Policy innovations for environmental health: Developing policies that balance environmental degradation and economic priorities.
• Social and economic costs of pollution-related health issues: How innovation can address the societal and economic burdens of pollution.
• Social and economic impact of climate change mitigation: Evaluating the broader consequences of policies aimed at reducing environmental harm.
• Public health initiatives in degraded environments: Innovative approaches to managing health risks in polluted areas.
• Innovations for public health: Exploring how innovations can enhance public health in environmentally compromised areas.
• Green Technology and job creation: Understanding how eco-friendly technologies can drive economic growth and create jobs.
Each of these topics will provide insights into the interplay between the environment, health, society, and the economy, emphasizing innovation's crucial role in addressing these global challenges. This Research Topic will serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to present solutions that contribute to a healthier and more sustainable future.
Keywords: environmental degradation, public health, social and economic costs, innovation, environmental regional asymmetries, climate change
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
