Sustainable Urban Environments for Human Health

Nidhi Singh, Justyna M. Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Pardeep Singh, Pramit Verma

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443404085
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Sustainable Urban Environments for Human Health integrates concepts related to energy sustainability, urbanization, and human health into a single comprehensive resource. This book addresses the multifaceted global crises involving energy, economy, environment, and public health by exploring synergies and anticipating future perspectives, opportunities, and challenges to ensure resilience in a rapidly evolving human-driven world. Themes include ecological urban planning for health, renewable energy in urban environments, air quality and respiratory health, green infrastructure and health, active transportation and health, energy equity and social determinants of health, urban agriculture and food systems. - Presents a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding urban health problems - Provides knowledge and information about the synergy effect emerging from ecosystem connectivity - Offers a theoretical perspective on practical urban sustainability for transitional and transformational change

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Ecovillages and energy in the Global South
• Chapter 2 It is not only about TECH—renewables in an urban space: Tenets, Essence, CHallenges
• Chapter 3 Vector-borne diseases and human well-being in urban settlements
• Chapter 4 Waterborne diseases and urban settlements: a case study from Bangladesh
• Chapter 5 Spatial accessibility and resource capacity analysis of healthcare facilities in the city of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Chapter 6 Strategies to reduce air pollution through sustainable energy practices in households, the urban economy, and mobility
• Chapter 7 Investigating the link between urban air quality, energy consumption, and respiratory health
• Chapter 8 Investigating the role of urban agriculture in implementing the European Green Deal: a case study from Poland
• Chapter 9 Green spaces and mental health in urban India: scientific evidence, equity challenges, and policy pathways
• Chapter 10 Green infrastructure and its multifunctional benefits at urban centers
• Chapter 11 Impacts of urban green infrastructure on human well-being and health
• Chapter 12 Sustainability in later life: profiling older adults’ proenvironmental beliefs and behaviors using network analysis
• Chapter 13 Transdisciplinary frameworks of urbanization, energy, environment and human health research
• Index