Manuscript submission is now open for a new article collection I am co-editing on “Future Indoor-Outdoor Built Environment Air Quality: Measurements, Assessments and Policies in Low Resource Regions”. On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to consider including a paper from you in this collection – if you would like to contribute, you can register your interest in the link below my signature. We would be delighted to feature your work and hope you will contribute an original research article/review or a less time-consuming mini-review/perspective; you can find more information about article types here.
The indoor-outdoor environment air quality around buildings is very important. Air pollution is a huge environmental risk to health, and reducing this would considerably reduce the disease burden from respiratory diseases. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of 2019, 99% of the world population was inhabiting areas where the air quality concentration values were higher than the WHO air quality guidelines. Evidence also suggests that most of the estimated premature deaths due to poor air quality occur in low and middle-income regions and these also account for poor indoor air quality due to the design of the houses and the use of fossil fuels for cooking.
Whilst considerable work has been performed in high-income regions regarding air quality around buildings, there is scant research in this area with respect to low-income regions. In these areas, a number of questions arise as to how the built environment can be harnessed to (i) innovatively tackle the air quality issues specific to such regions in a sustainable manner, given the resource constraints (ii) how these inform and or are informed by the policies, learning and research in these regions.
We are interested in Original Research, Perspective and Review articles that directly address the difficulties in applying the fundamental science of measuring, assessing and building policies regarding the indoor-outdoor environment air quality around buildings in developing countries. This topic is multidisciplinary in approach, ranging from the fundamental science, to the unique built environment factors in these regions, and the influence of measurement methods and policy implementation. Successful case studies that can trace the results to fundamental knowledge are particularly welcome.
This collection is being produced in collaboration with Frontiers in Built Environment. All research will be published Open Access. Additionally, we aim to put together a free ebook of all published manuscripts to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the latest research developments in the field.
You can learn more about the collection here:
If you would like feedback on a manuscript’s suitability, please submit an abstract (or proposed research overview) by 30 September. As we publish on a rolling basis, you are welcome to submit your final manuscript before the deadline of 29 November. We can also accommodate personal extensions.
Please note that publishing fees are applied to accepted articles, but the team at Frontiers is happy to advise you in this regard. You can reach out to our dedicated point of contact at Frontiers, Josh, at [email protected] if you have any questions.
