Climate change and COVID-19: Interdisciplinary perspectives from two global crises

Khojasteh, Danial; Davani, Ehsan; Shamsipour, Abbas; Haghani, Milad; Glamore, William

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157142

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“…Additionally, a rising hazard to the sustainability of the environment is the release of MPs (microplastics) and MFs (microfibers) from discarded PPE. The latest study of Khojasteh et al ( 2022 ) made the case for the need for comprehensive, multisectoral alleviation solutions for two worldwide crises: climate change and COVID-19. Both crises, despite having separate causes, cannot be effectively addressed without considering their interdependencies.…”

Section: Literature Review and Methodological Structurementioning

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COVID-19, travel restrictions and environmental consequences

Usman

Husnain

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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The component of human life that has been most significantly altered by the COVID-19 epidemic is travel. Due to the upheaval produced by the pandemic breakout, countries are becoming increasingly avaricious and are scrambling to stockpile vaccines. The world has been locked down to reduce/control the pandemic outbreak, driving countries to shut their doors to other people from countries. The recent pandemic has had a short-term, positive effect on the environment, but travel restrictions have caused problems for the common person and are expected to deteriorate more soon, necessitating longer quarantines, vaccination requirements, vaccine passports, and immunization certificates required by countries for safe travel. Thus, this study has three objectives. First, we investigate the impact of COVID-19 on travel and the environment, as well as the role that tourists play in the transmission of the virus. Second, we examine how countries are handling COVID-19 vaccines. Finally, we pinpoint differences in vaccination coverage.

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Section: Literature Review and Methodological Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19, travel restrictions and environmental consequences

Usman

Husnain

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Temperature extremes can deteriorate chronic illnesses like malnutrition (Dietz, 2020), autoimmune diseases like arthritis (Levine, 2022) and diabetes (Natur et. al., 2022), cardio-respiratory symptoms (Bell et al, 2018), certain cancer types (Nogueira et al, 2020;Hiatt & Beyeler, 2020) as well as spread contagious diseases like mosquito-borne illnesses, COVID-19 (Khojasteh et al, 2022), and fungal or bacterial infections (Hauser et al, 2021;Nnadi, & Carter, 2021) (Figure 8). For instance, a 1-degree Celsius increase in global temperature may result in more than 100,000 new cases of diabetes each year in the USA alone (Mohiuddin, 2020a) and six times more premature deaths among respiratory patients compared to the general population (D'Amato et al, 2015) (Figure 3).…”

Section: A Brief Review Of Present Global Situationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthcare Challenges due to Global Conflict Escalation Amid the Pandemic, Climate, and Economic Dilemmas

Mohiuddin¹

2023

Preprint

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Aim: Shockwaves have been felt all over the world as a result of war, inflation, food shortages, and the COVID-19 pandemic's long tail. The aim of the study is to correlate present global conflicts, pandemic and socio-economic crises with present healthcare sustainability, identifying possible threats and visualize future global health crises if all these catastrophes persist for long. Materials and Methods: PubMed, ALTAVISTA, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Central Registers were prioritized to collect public health issues. Results: The global economic slowdown, sharp decline in financial asset values, decline in imports and exports, contraction of industrial production, rise in inflation, decrease in wages, rise in unemployment, damage to the social security caused by numerous natural calamities, human displacement due to pandemic and ongoing conflicts tear down not only the economic sector but also the health sector. It is already late for taking corrective measure by the participation every country, community or intelligence. Only healthcare issues, highlighted in this study, if focused in the highest platforms, could compel global leaders to forego conflicts and work together. Conclusion: The global health sector will be collapsed soon, if proper initiatives are not taken right now, which has already been grossly mistreated by the pandemic.

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“…Disastrous shrinking of rivers has been reported in the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East (Bradsher & Dong, 2022;Croker et al, 2022;Henley, 2022; (Dietz, 2020), auto-immune diseases like arthritis (Levine, 2022) and diabetes (Natur et. al., 2022), cardio-respiratory symptoms (Bell et al, 2018), certain cancer types (Hiatt & Beyeler, 2020;Nogueira et al, 2020) as well as spread contagious diseases like mosquito-borne illnesses, COVID-19 (Khojasteh et al, 2022), and fungal or bacterial infections (Hauser et al, 2021;Nnadi, & Carter, 2021) (Figure 4). For instance, a one-degree celsius increase in global temperature may result in more than 100,000 new cases of diabetes each year in the USA alone (Mohiuddin, 2020a) and six times more premature deaths among respiratory patients compared to the general population (D'Amato et al, 2015) (Figure 3).…”

Section: A Brief Review Of Present Global Situationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global conflict escalation during the pandemic, climate, and economic dilemmas: Healthcare sustainability challenges in conflict zones and elsewhere

Mohiuddin

2023

EUR J SUSTAIN DEV RES

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Religion, governance, and politics–as well as related topics such as human rights, justice, and so on–have historically caused many of the world’s most significant conflicts, and they continue to do so because these issues are often the most fundamental in the structure of a society. To gain a military advantage, parties to armed conflicts have polluted water, burned crops, cut down forests, poisoned soils, and killed animals over the years. A variety of context factors, particularly socioeconomic conditions, governance, and political factors, interact and play a key role in translating climate change into conflict risks. The present unrest all over the world risks putting more than half of the countries into a crisis of health, economy, and social safety, which is the biggest threat to human civilization. The security and safety of healthcare facilities, workers, and supply lines remain paramount concerns along with access to health services, technology, and innovation.

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Climate change and COVID-19: Interdisciplinary perspectives from two global crises

Cited by 46 publications

References 138 publications

COVID-19, travel restrictions and environmental consequences

COVID-19, travel restrictions and environmental consequences

Healthcare Challenges due to Global Conflict Escalation Amid the Pandemic, Climate, and Economic Dilemmas

Global conflict escalation during the pandemic, climate, and economic dilemmas: Healthcare sustainability challenges in conflict zones and elsewhere

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