Environmental externalities of the COVID-19 lockdown: Insights for sustainability planning in the Anthropocene

Chowdhury, Rubel Biswas; Khan, Ayushi; Mahiat, Tashfia; Dutta, Hillol; Tasmeea, Tahana; Arman, Afra Bashira Binth; Fardu, Farzin; Roy, Bidhan Bhuson; Hossain, Mohammad Mosharraf; Khan, Niaz Ahmed; Amin, Aziz; Sujauddin, Mohammad

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147015

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“…Governments are taking drastic steps to stem the spread of COVID-19, including lockdowns affecting billions of people ( Bates et al, 2020 ; Diffenbaugh et al, 2020 ; Doherty et al, 2021 ). This has reduced air, water, light, and sound pollution ( Chowdhury et al, 2021 ), travel and trade, and human visitation to many (but not all recreational) areas ( Rutz et al, 2020 ; Venter et al, 2020 ). All of these changes may affect wildlife behavior, distribution, productivity, and survival ( Kowarik, 2011 ).…”

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Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology

Sumasgutner

Buij

McClure

et al. 2021

Biological Conservation

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Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology

Sumasgutner

Buij

McClure

et al. 2021

Biological Conservation

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“…Skies are more apparent, and additional species of birds and aquatic animals can be seen. Even the water of rivers becomes more apparent, and more biodiversity is seen during the lockdown (Chowdhury et al, 2021b;Sunny et al, 2021). People remained inside their houses, and industries remained shut down; it provided great relief to nature and mother earth.…”

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Towards the impact of COVID-19 on the Environment, Education, and Economy (EEE)

Kaur

Siwal

Bishnoi

et al. 2022

Biomat Polymers Horizon

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COVID-19 has intensified human suffering, undermined the economy, turned the lives of billions of people around the globe upside down, and significantly affected the health, economic, environmental, and social domains. This study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the ecological environment, the energy sector, society, and the economy and investigate the global preventive measures taken to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. This epidemic has caused severe demographic changes and unemployment, and economic activities have been shut down to save human lives. Transportation industries are most severely hit as global tourism has fallen to almost zero during these months. As a solution, financial institutes have introduced stimulus packages worth more than $6 trillion. However, restricted economic activities have also contributed to a cleaner environment. Here in this report, we have collected the literature based on the impacts of lockdown on (EEE); environment (such as; air pollution, water pollution, marine life, and wildlife, etc.), education (such as; positive drawbacks, and long-term effects) and economy (such as; GDP, street vendors, agriculture and food supply sector, and drug traffickers, etc.). Finally, we concluded our topic with affirmative and negative impacts of COVID-19 during the lockdown. To the best of our knowledge, this is a unique and one-of-its-kind review highlighting the essential impact of COVID-19 on the environment, education, and economy.

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“…This new attitude represents a challenge for modern industries, turning it into an added value that gives them a competitive advantage by successfully marketing their products and by guaranteeing public opinion that, although they carry out activities that may degrade the environment, they are managed with criteria suitable (Jaimes, 2018). In this sense, the global industrial network has been progressively adopting the use of Environmental Management Systems (Chowdhury et al, 2021;Movilla et al, 2020).…”

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Ecomap or Ecomapping in the productive sector: Practical tool for the diagnosis of the environmental situation

Sierra¹,

Ahumada-Villafañe²

2021

IPSA Scientia rev. cient. multidiscip.

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The organizations are aware of the need to insert them in this international market, which has as a mandatory requirement to demonstrate a solid environmental performance in correspondence with the expectations of the interested parties and the transparency of their information. The application of environmental management tools constitutes a fundamental element within modern business strategies, since they allow improving the environmental performance of a company, without affecting its profitability and even increasing it, since its adoption implies concepts of quality and technical efficiency. The Ecomaps allow analyzing, managing and communicating on the management of resources, water, energy, materials and supplies, as well as the management of waste, emissions, discharges and risks in a productive or functional activity, in environmental matters. The main objective of this review article is to qualitatively analyze the scientific literature available in the Science Direct, Scielo, Redalyc databases and official Web pages, using as search words: environment, industrial, ecomap, company, sustainability. Relevant information related to the proposed objective was obtained, which is presented in 3 sections: Diagnosis of the environmental situation in companies, Ecomap or Ecomapping, Types of Ecomaps. Ecomapping is a step-by-step process to collect useful information and trigger immediate environmental actions. The ecomaps verify the processes and behaviors of the collaborators and induce immediate improvements.

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Environmental externalities of the COVID-19 lockdown: Insights for sustainability planning in the Anthropocene

Cited by 35 publications

References 112 publications

Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology

Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology

Towards the impact of COVID-19 on the Environment, Education, and Economy (EEE)

Ecomap or Ecomapping in the productive sector: Practical tool for the diagnosis of the environmental situation

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