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 âneighborhood delaysâ as a modern risk factor to stay. This Special Issue welcomes a) Neighborhood concerns: Crime footprint, social carrying capacity footprint, public goodsâŻfootprint) General public concerns: Migration footprint, class society footprint, heritage footprint. c) Concerns on the current mechanisms: CSR actions and effectiveness, NGOsâ actions and effectiveness, SDG relevant projects.âŻ
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,â notes Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Sustainability and Climate Change.
Journal of Urban Planning and Development
The COVIDâ19 pandemic has affected intensively on millions of people and communities. The worldâshaking 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 COVIDâ19 on people's health and wellâbeing have been investigated and debated by hundreds of researchers worldwide. Governments and authorities have raised a few deâurbanization solutions to control COVIDâ19âŻrisks, suchâŻas decentralizing services and supplies, isolating communities, and restrictions on social behaviors. However, these solutions are shortâterm treatments, not longâterm consolidated treatments.âŻ
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