Biophilic Cities and Communities

<p>This Topic explores the role of biophilic cities and communities; participating journals include <em>Buildings Forests Land</em> and<em> Sustainability</em>. It comprises thirty-seven papers involving biophilic-related studies touching on natural resources and environmental and social sustainability in Asia Europe and America. This collection addresses three fields of research: (1) Biophilic urbanism and processes. This research field focuses on land use/cover change spatial-temporal trends geodesign bioclimatic design sustainable urban-rural planning etc. (2) Natural resource conservation and management. This field focuses on urban ecosystems ecological patterns and processes environmental education and policies forest management nature-based solutions etc. (3) Computational social science and human behavior. This last field of research addresses multi-sensory interaction social and historical sensing mental health and well-being big data and cognitive computing etc.</p>