Environmental Quality and Human Well-Being: Pathways Linking Green Spaces, Built Environments, Mental Health

This Special Issue Reprint compiles all peer-reviewed contributions published under the Special Issue Environmental Quality and Human Well-Being: Pathways Linking Green Spaces, Built Environments, and Mental Health. Environmental quality, including green space exposure and built environment characteristics, has been shown to significantly influence human well-being and mental health. As rapid urbanization continues to intensify environmental pollution, social inequality, and psychological distress, health-oriented environmental planning and design have become essential strategies for improving living environments and promoting high-quality built environments.Recent advances in mental health assessment tools, portable electroencephalography (EEG) wearable devices, and machine learning techniques have enabled the real-time collection of physiological response data, enriching empirical research on human-environment interactions. Integrating literature reviews, theoretical analyses, experimental studies, and practice-oriented case studies, this Reprint examines the relationships between environmental conditions and mental health. It further explores design interventions that enhance psychological well-being, frameworks for evaluating environmental livability, and the multilevel mechanisms linking built environment characteristics, human perception, and everyday behaviors. By bringing together research from architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape architecture, the social sciences, and computer science, this Reprint provides an interdisciplinary platform for advancing healthy, human-centered environmental research.