Journal of Sustainability

At the age of communication, social networking, branding by reviews, and hashtag influences, the risk of the social movement, neighborhood-driven work stops, and construction delay due to unaddressed social concerns is increasing. If proper risk identification and mitigation is not in practice, soon we will see the 鈥渘eighborhood delays鈥 as a modern risk factor to stay. This Special Issue welcomes a) Neighborhood concerns: Crime footprint, social carrying capacity footprint, public goods鈥痜ootprint) General public concerns: Migration footprint, class society footprint, heritage footprint. c) Concerns on the current mechanisms: CSR actions and effectiveness, NGOs鈥 actions and effectiveness, SDG relevant projects.鈥 

 

Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change

This Special Issue on Pandemics, Socially Equitable Economic Advancement, and Resilient and Sustainable Systems includes timely opinion and research related to the COVID-19 pandemic. "This issue addresses educational disparity and aspects of economic vulnerability, highlighting how the pandemic has magnified pre-existing intra- and intercountry inequities. The effects of the pandemic provide an overt understanding of the rational for Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty and increases transparency with respect to preparedness for emerging and predicted climate change related shocks,鈥 notes Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Sustainability and Climate Change.

 

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

The COVID鈥19 pandemic has affected intensively on millions of people and communities. The world鈥恠haking communicable coronavirus disease has become a pandemic threat and a challenge to our health and, subsequently, to the built environment, which forced governments to enforce new and innovative commitments to public healthcare. The impacts of COVID鈥19 on people's health and well鈥恇eing have been investigated and debated by hundreds of researchers worldwide. Governments and authorities have raised a few de鈥恥rbanization solutions to control COVID鈥19鈥痳isks, such鈥痑s decentralizing services and supplies, isolating communities, and restrictions on social behaviors. However, these solutions are short鈥恡erm treatments, not long鈥恡erm consolidated treatments.鈥 

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