COVID-19 pandemic and environmental pollution: A blessing in disguise?
By Sulaman Muhammad, Xingle Long, M. Salman. Science of the Total Environment, 2020
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In late 2019, a novel infectious disease with human to human transmission (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan China, which now has turned into a global pandemic. Countries all over the world have implemented some sort of lockdown to slow down its infection and mitigate it. Lockdown due to COVID-19 has drastic effects on social and economic fronts. However, this lockdown also has some positive effect on natural environment. Recent data released by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and ESA (European Space Agency) indicates that pollution in some of the epicenters of COVID-19 such as Wuhan, Italy, Spain and USA etc. has reduced up to 30%. This study compiled the environmental data released by NASA and ESA before and after the coronavirus pandemic and discusses its impact on environmental quality.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Citations in the corpus
- How does tourism development affect environmental pollution? (2021, background): “5, SO2, NO2, and CO2, and the outbreak of the pandemic contributes to reducing the environmental pollution due to the slower economic development and reduction in people’s daily life (Berman and Ebisu, 2020; Lokhandwala and Gautam, 2020; Muhammad et al., 2020).”
- Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on travel behavior and mode preferences (2020, background): “In the severely affected cities, mobility was reduced by up to 90% (Muhammad et al., 2020).”
- Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students: A Global Perspective (2020, background): “people needing help in the family or in neighbourhood, and finally shopping and travelling less [44] and therefore saving the planet from pollution [114].”
- Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway (2020, background): “The 2020 novel coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented changes to mobility, economic activity and the associated environmental footprint (Muhammad et al 2020, Venter et al Venter, et al., 2020aa).”