Making waves in resilience: Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for advancing sustainable development

Voorn, Tom van der; Berg, Caroline van den; Quist, Jaco; Kok, Kasper

doi:10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100171

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“…Publicly funded healthcare is a substantial part of government spending in most developed countries, including the EU member states [108]. WHO [109] claims that public health and social measures (PHSMs) are a key strategy to reduce the transmission of pathogens with epidemic or pandemic potential. These include non-pharmaceutical interventions that can be taken by individuals, institutions, communities, local and national governments, and international bodies to slow or stop the spread of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.…”

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COVID-19 resilience index in European Union countries based on their risk and readiness scale

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Addressing risks and pandemics at a country level is a complex task that requires transdisciplinary approaches. The paper aims to identify groups of the European Union countries characterized by a similar COVID-19 Resilience Index (CRI). Developed in the paper CRI index reflects the countries’ COVID-19 risk and their readiness for a crisis situation, including a pandemic. Moreover, the study detects the factors that significantly differentiate the distinguished groups. According to our research, Bulgaria, Hungary, Malta, and Poland have the lowest COVID-19 Resilience Index score, with Croatia, Greece, Czechia, and Slovakia following close. At the same time, Ireland and Scandinavian countries occupy the top of the leader board, followed by Luxemburg. The Kruskal-Wallis test results indicate four COVID-19 risk indicators that significantly differentiate the countries in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the significant factors are not only COVID-19-related factors, i.e., the changes in residential human mobility, the stringency of anti-COVID-19 policy, but also strictly environmental factors, namely pollution and material footprint. It indicates that the most critical global environmental issues might be crucial in the phase of a future pandemic. Moreover, we detect eight readiness factors that significantly differentiate the analysed country groups. Among the significant factors are the economic indicators such as GDP per capita and labour markets, the governance indicators such as Rule of Law, Access to Information, Implementation and Adaptability measures, and social indicators such as Tertiary Attainment and Research, Innovation, and Infrastructure.

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COVID-19 resilience index in European Union countries based on their risk and readiness scale

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“…The paths authorities choose with respect to migrant-inclusive COVID-19 response-and-recovery efforts will shape societies’ levels of risk to future crises ( 24 ). The significant parallels between actions that should be taken for the pandemics and the climate issue ( 51–53 ) demonstrates the pressing need for this agenda and provides apertures for a shared approach.…”

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Strengthening the social resilience of people living at the intersection of precariousness and migration during pandemics: action recommendations developed in Munich, Germany

Öcek,

Geise,

Volkmann

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Front. Public Health

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IntroductionAn EU-funded project in five countries examined vulnerability mechanisms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team in Germany concentrated on people living at the intersection of migration and precariousness. The study aimed first to provide an understanding of how migrants living in precarious conditions in Munich had been affected by the pandemic, both from their own and from experts’ perspectives. The second aim was to develop action recommendations to reduce structural vulnerabilities and increase resilience with a view towards improved pandemic preparedness.MethodsThe study followed a two-phase process. The first was a qualitative study based on interviews with 25 migrants and 13 experts. In the second, researchers developed action recommendations based on the vulnerability/ resilience factors that had been generated in the first phase. Three consecutive meetings with stakeholders (expert panel, focus group discussion with two migrant organization, meeting with the Munich Migration Council) were then held to further strengthen the draft recommendations.ResultsContent analysis revealed twelve vulnerability and eight resilience factors in three domains (COVID-19 prevention; human rights, living and housing environment; social support). Migrants had limited access to COVID-19 prevention measures; living conditions made outbreaks inevitable; uncertainty about legal status, employment, and housing, as well as stigma and discrimination, exacerbated their precariousness; social support had decreased; and resilience mechanisms had failed. The initial draft of recommendations contained 24 proposed actions. The meetings added recommendations such as enhancing psychosocial support, preventing ghettoization, improving social housing, preventing the interruption of language education in times of crisis, severe penalties for media stigmatisation and proactive truth-telling. The final list included 30 actions.ConclusionIn Munich, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated vulnerability mechanisms commonly associated with being a migrant. The recommendations developed here speak to those vulnerabilities but need to be refined further to be more actionable and comprehensive. Nonetheless, the recommendations and the processes that led to them highlight the importance of migrant-inclusive approaches and empowerment in increasing migrants’ resilience to future crises.

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Comparative Analysis of Sustainability and Resilience in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Warmbier

2023

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Making waves in resilience: Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for advancing sustainable development

Cited by 8 publications

References 46 publications

COVID-19 resilience index in European Union countries based on their risk and readiness scale

COVID-19 resilience index in European Union countries based on their risk and readiness scale

Strengthening the social resilience of people living at the intersection of precariousness and migration during pandemics: action recommendations developed in Munich, Germany

Comparative Analysis of Sustainability and Resilience in Operations and Supply Chain Management

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