Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?

Black, Daniel; Bates, Geoff; Gibson, Andy; Hatleskog, Eli; Fichera, Eleonora; Hatchard, Jenny; Hasan, Nazmul; Rosenberg, Ges; Larkin, Charles; Brierley, Rachel; Kidger, Judi; Bondy, Krista; Hickman, Matthew; Pain, Kathy; Hicks, Ben; Scally, Gabriel; Verma, Arpana; Carhart, Neil J; Pilkington, Paul; Hunt, Alistair; Ireland, Paddy

doi:10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480

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“…As many countries worldwide introduced extended lockdowns to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus, attention shifted largely to the challenges of working from home. However, many others, and particularly those designated as ‘key’ or ‘essential’ workers, among whom many are in low‐paid and/or precarious employment, continued to make commuter journeys (Black et al, 2020 ; Lee et al, 2021 ).…”

Section: Pandemic Im/mobilitiesmentioning

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Essential workers' pandemic mobilities and the changing meanings of the commute

Plyushteva

2022

Geographical Journal

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This commentary reflects on the pandemic commute and its significance for, on one hand, engaging with the problematic category of essential work, and on the other, future geographical research on transport and mobilities. Drawing on essential workers' contributions to the 'Not working from home' public engagement project, I outline some experiences of commuting during the Covid-19 pandemic. I illustrate the role of pandemic commuting in defining, and wrestling with, what the category of essential work might mean. I then discuss the ways in which attending to pandemic commutes may extend and reshape existing research on unequal mobilities. Some of the future research directions made more urgent by a focus on pandemic commutes include critical engagements with first, intersectional inequalities in the journey to work; second, the category of 'essential journeys' as used in transport policy and practice; third, the positionality of academic researchers who work on the topic of commuting; and finally, the treatment of commuting time as an integral part of working time.Funding information: Wellcome Trust [Grant number: 204826/Z/16/Z] Data availability statement: Data available on request due to privacy/ethical restrictions 2 PANDEMIC IM/MOBILITIES In my role as a qualitative transport geographer, I have been doing research on different aspects of commuting for the last ten years. I have often felt exasperated by the view of the commute as a banal, repetitive, universally recognisable experience, the very definition ofThis article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as

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Section: Pandemic Im/mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Essential workers' pandemic mobilities and the changing meanings of the commute

Plyushteva

2022

Geographical Journal

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“…Many papers raise issues of vulnerability and fragility of people and of systems (Berkowitz et al 2020, Black et al 2020) and consequences arising from inequalities (Cave et al 2020, Diez Roux et al 2020, Cole et al 2020, Lawanson et al 2020. Resilience is another theme that several authors examine (Rippon et al 2020, Jenkins 2020, Obonyo and Mutunga 2020.…”

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The urban syndemic of COVID-19: insights, reflections and implications

Ellis

Grant²,

Brown

et al. 2021

Cities & Health

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This editorial introduces the origin, purpose and scope of a Special Issue on COVID-19. It brings together 43 contributions from across the globe that examine the way in which COVID-19 has challenged the way we think about urban design, spatial planning and city governance. The editorial draws out a number of key messages from this body of work, highlighting how the impact of COVID-19 has been most devastating when combined with the existing vulnerabilities and chronic ill-health experienced in pre-pandemic cities. Following The Lancet, we, therefore, characterise this as a syndemic rather than pandemic, due to the way it interacts with existing urban NCDs. This provides further resolve to address long-standing urban health inequalities and challenges, while seeking more holistic ways of addressing these, for example through the Sustainable Development Goals. The editorial explains the role of our partners in the Special Issue (ISUH, Design Council and BOVA Network), draws out some of the themes from the collected papers, and finally highlights an agenda for future contributions to Cities & Health that will allow us to better understand and respond to the aftermath of the COVID-19 syndemic.

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“…On top of all the existing challenges, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled the urban areas raising more concerns about the future of sustainability. Black et al, (2020) note that, «In dense, internationally connected cities, risk of transfer of infectious disease is exacerbated through rapid population flows, and lack of quality public space». By bringing the issue of urban vulnerability to the forefront, the pandemic has reinstated interest in the subject (Sharifi et al 2020).…”

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Pandemic And Urban Sustainability: Analyzing The Covid-19 Scenario In Mumbai, India

Bhattacharjee

Sattar

2021

GES

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The present study analyses the case of urban sustainability in Mumbai in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and aims to identify the relationship between the existing sustainability issues and the spread of the pandemic across the administrative wards of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. It also tries to delve into the reasons behind the observed relationships to establish the patterns created by the COVID-19 pandemic in Mumbai by the end of August 2020. The study relies on secondary sources of data, that include reports published by government agencies, news articles, journals and websites. The study comprises a large amount of quantitative data that were analyzed using ArcGIS 10.4.1 and SPSS 23. The qualitative data collected through an extensive literature review was used alongside the quantitative data to support the study. The findings reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic had a varied impact across the wards of Mumbai, which was found to be associated with the unequal socio-economic conditions that prevail across the city. This inequality has contributed to Mumbai’s reduced resilience, for building which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have to be achieved.

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Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?

Cited by 5 publications

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Essential workers' pandemic mobilities and the changing meanings of the commute

Essential workers' pandemic mobilities and the changing meanings of the commute

The urban syndemic of COVID-19: insights, reflections and implications

Pandemic And Urban Sustainability: Analyzing The Covid-19 Scenario In Mumbai, India

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