Dear Colleagues,

Environmental change, urbanisation, and heritage transformation increasingly shape how individuals and communities perceive, experience, and respond to their surroundings. This Special Issue, Environmental Stress, Cultural Memory, and Social Psychology in Heritage and Urban Landscapes, brings together social psychology, environmental psychology, planning, architecture, and related disciplines to examine how environmental stressors, cultural memory, and spatial change influence human behaviour, identity, and well-being.

The Special Issue focuses on heritage and urban landscapes as psychologically active environments where place attachment, collective memory, risk perception, and adaptive behaviour are continuously negotiated. Particular attention is given to rapidly transforming cities and culturally significant landscapes facing pressures from tourism, climate change, infrastructure expansion, and environmental degradation. By integrating psychological theory with environmental and spatial contexts, this Special Issue aims to advance interdisciplinary understanding of human–environment interactions and socially sustainable planning and design strategies.

We welcome a diversity of articles, such as conceptual and empirical articles, reviews, critical comments, and meta-analyses, for submission to this Special Issue. We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines, addressing topics related to the scope.

Dr. Aditi Nag

Prof. Dr. Sukalyan Chakraborty

Guest Editors

Environmental psychology; Social psychology; Cultural memory; Place attachment; Heritage landscapes; Urban stress; Environmental perception; Human–environment interaction; Tourism behaviour; Community resilience; Identity and space; Sustainable environments