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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, and urban waste management's impact on human health.

Dr. Nidhi Singh's currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany. She obtained her Master's and PhD in Environmental Science from Banaras Hindu University, India. Her field of research is Environmental Epidemiology, with a main focus on studying the effect of climate and air pollution on different health outcomes such as morbidity and mortality associated with respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders such as depression and skin ageing and Melanoma. Dr. Singh has worked on various other projects in diverse research fields such as Climate Change/Agro meteorology/Climate modelling/Vector-borne diseases. Dr. Singh has received various awards and travel grants and is also a team member of the EU-Horizon Project (MELCAYA). She is an invited speaker at various national and international conferences and member of various academic societies, a new career research Editor and a reviewer of various top journals in her field.

Professor Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk works at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Silesia University in Katowice, Poland. Her research focuses on: socio-spatial aspects of energy transition, renewables, biogas, sustainability, smart and resilience ideas, local development, embeddedness, urban mobility, adaptation to climate change, energy policy, environmental awareness, biodiversity, and just transition. She's author and co-author of over 100 scientific works - monographs and scientific articles, in leading scientific journals. She has been the Deputy Editor in Chief of the Bulletin of Geography. She carries out numerous national and international research projects as a leader and initiator. She was a member of the International Energy SHIFTS RENEWABLES Horizon 2020 working group, which worked on the social aspects of energy transition.

Dr Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India in 2011. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi in the year 2017. The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management.

Dr. Pramit Verma is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He completed his PhD from the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2021. He is currently working in the field of Urban Ecology. He has also worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management. He has published several research articles and a technical report while participating in various national and international conferences, workshops and seminars. He is also working on the socioeconomic dynamics governing urban energy and urban land use in secondary cities of India.