Indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment
By Manuel A. Zambrano‐Monserrate, M. A. Ruano, Luis Sanchez-Alcalde. Science of the Total Environment, 2020
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This research aims to show the positive and negative indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment, particularly in the most affected countries such as China, USA, Italy, and Spain. Our research shows that there is a significant association between contingency measures and improvement in air quality, clean beaches and environmental noise reduction. On the other hand, there are also negative secondary aspects such as the reduction in recycling and the increase in waste, further endangering the contamination of physical spaces (water and land), in addition to air. Global economic activity is expected to return in the coming months in most countries (even if slowly), so decreasing GHG concentrations during a short period is not a sustainable way to clean up our environment.
Subfields: Food Science, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution
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- A critical analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and ecosystems and opportunities for circular economy strategies (2020, neutral): “terms of the physical appearance of numerous beaches across the globe have been observed (Zambrano-Monserrate et al., 2020).”
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic, energy-environment and transport sector globally and sustainable development goal (SDG) (2021, neutral): “Using these climatic correlations with COVID-19 cases data (Jan 20 to Feb 29: 2299 COVID-19 death counts) in Wuhan, temperature and humidity proved to have an impact on mortality, and increased temperature showed a slight decline in the rate of death.”
- Impact of COVID-19 large scale restriction on environment and economy in Indonesia (2020, background): “5 and NO2 concentrations in China, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy (Zambrano-Monserrate et al., 2020), Beside, AT parameter had a linear relationship with the number of people afflicted with COVID-19 in different provinces of Iran and that the transmission rate of coronavirus did not have a high s”