Environmental Disruptions and Adaptive Planning and Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue on “Environmental disruptions and adaptive planning strategies" addresses key elements related to the new world paradigm, i.e., how can our society, organizations and systems pivot rapidly and dynamically when the status-quo is shifted? In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted most of our urban systems, encompassing health, behavioural, economic and environmental disruptions. As a result, city, national, regional and worldwide systems underwent a significant shift, which in turn triggered several adaptive planning and strategic adjustments to pivot into different operational settings.

This Special Issue welcomes evidence-based studies describing how recent adaptive planning strategies were developed and implemented to address contemporary environmental disruptors, such as COVID-19. Studies addressing other environmental disruptors are also welcome, including, but not limited to: asbestos contamination, fossil fuel pollution, plastic/micro-plastic bio-accumulation, pharmaceutical contamination, heavy metals pollution, habitat loss, land use change and water scarcity. Studies encompassing dynamic modelling and associated strategic frameworks to predict and mitigate the impact of environmental disruptors are invited as well.

This Special Issue will provide academics and practitioners from government and private sector institutions with a range of case studies and conceptual frameworks to inform the development of adaptive planning strategies. Such studies are critical to underpin the development of novel concepts based on evidence-based approaches and lessons learned from recent experiences, as well as novel modelling techniques used to dynamically pivot and adapt into the new paradigm associated with the rise of different environmental disruptors.

Guest Editor

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• environmental disruptors
• adaptation
• strategies
• urban systems
• pivot
• evidence-based
• frameworks