Behavior Change in Climate-Impacted Environments

Weather, climate variability, and extreme environmental conditions can influence when, where, and how people go about their daily behaviors. Heat, rainfall, smoke exposure, and other environmental stressors may disrupt physical activity, sleep, mobility, nutrition and diet, social and work routines, and broader health-related behaviors. At the same time, wearable devices, smartphones, and other digital health tools are creating new opportunities to measure these behavioral responses continuously and at scale.The goal of this Research Topic is to explore how behaviors change or adapt in climate-impacted environments, and how digital health approaches can help measure, understand, predict, or support these responses. We welcome work spanning behavioral monitoring, digital interventions, wearable technologies, environmental sensing, ecological momentary assessment, and data-driven approaches to health behavior in the context of climate and environmental change.Suitable themes for manuscripts include (but are not limited to):• Climate-responsive health messaging and digital communication strategies that prompt or support behavior change, such as real-time environmental alerts or adaptive nudging tools.• Application of behavior change frameworks or techniques to design and evaluate interventions for climate-sensitive populations. • Weather and climate influences on physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, nutrition, wellbeing, human mobility and daily routines.• Wearable and/or mobile phone-based approaches to measuring behavior and environmental conditions.• Within-day, daily or long-term measurement windows, including near and long forecasting.• Digital health interventions targeting weather and climate adaption for health behaviors.• Integration of environmental and geospatial data with digital health and behavior data.• Ecological momentary assessment for real-time monitoring of behavioral responses to weather and environmental conditions.• Behavioral responses during and around extreme weather events.• Exploration of climate-sensitive groups (e.g. older adults, very young children, outdoor workers, low-income/housing-insecure populations, people with chronic conditions and/or disability or mobility limitations).Conflict of Interest Declaration for Topic Editor Bastien Lechat: Research grants from Withings SA and OURA Health Ltd. Topic editors: Ty Ferguson, Bastien Lechat Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/83177/behavior-change-in-climate-impacted-environments