Lifestyle changes for climate mitigation in cities and their relationship to urban health and well-being: A literature review

IF 10.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2024.106069

Deniz Sirin , Peter Hoffmann , Jürgen Scheffran

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Abstract

Recently, an increasing number of studies are showing that lifestyle changes can effectively contribute to climate change mitigation and potentially provide health and well-being co-benefits. Despite this growing body of literature, a detailed overview of the lifestyle changes that encompass these two-fold benefits and are explicitly designed for urban dwellers is missing. With the aim of closing this knowledge gap, we reviewed the literature to: (i) identify which urban system variables, sectors, and interconnections are covered by the proposed lifestyle changes, and (ii) explore to what degree health and well-being outcomes of these lifestyle changes were analyzed by the studies. We extracted 181 lifestyle change options from the literature and mapped them onto a conceptual model of health-related urban well-being (UrbWellth). Our mapping revealed that mobility, buildings, households, and nutrition were the most frequently targeted urban system variables. However, interconnections between these and other urban system variables that potentially affect the implementation of lifestyle changes were underexplored. Furthermore, only a few studies analyzed health and well-being outcomes of lifestyle changes. Developing lifestyle change scenarios for a transition to healthy and sustainable cities requires a holistic approach where interconnections within the urban system and health and well-being outcomes are extensively analyzed.

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Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;