Urban environmental health interventions towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Sotiris Vardoulakis; Jennifer Salmond; Thomas Krafft; Lidia Morawska

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141530

Urban environmental health interventions towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Sci Total Environ. 2020 Dec 15:748:141530. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141530. Epub 2020 Aug 7.

Authors

Sotiris Vardoulakis¹, Jennifer Salmond², Thomas Krafft³, Lidia Morawska⁴

Affiliations

¹ National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Electronic address: sotiris.vardoulakis@anu.edu.au.
² School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
³ Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht 6200 MD, the Netherlands.
⁴ International Laboratory for Air Quality & Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001 Australia.

Abstract

The aim of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030. Since the majority of the global population lives in cities, it is crucial to identify, evaluate and implement urban interventions (such as zero carbon housing, active transport, better urban connectivity, air pollution control, clean household fuels, and protection from heat and flood events) that will improve health and wellbeing and make our natural and built environment more sustainable. This Virtual Special Issue (VSI) comprises of 14 diverse case studies, methods and tools that provide suggestions for interventions which directly or indirectly support the achievement of the UN SDGs.

Keywords: Climate change; Environmental health; Non-communicable diseases; Sustainable development; Urban health.

Publication types

Editorial