“…The volume collects 20 different points of view, which cover environmental protection and development, urban planning, geography, public policymaking, participation processes, and other cross-disciplinary fields ( Figure 2). The interdisciplinary research conducted in this domain addresses such issues as evaluation of the quality of life in urban and suburban environments [5,6], issues related to public health protection [7,8], environmental injustice [9], engineering and infrastructure safety [10][11][12], energy security [13], income and environmental risk [14,15], hydrological and climate change risks [16][17][18], and mapping techniques [19][20][21][22]. All of them had been incorporated into socio-environmental vulnerability assessments, which present a broad perspective of this domain.…”