The impacts of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability: A brief study in world context

Abubakar, L.; Salemcity, Anuoluwa James; Abass, Olusegun K.; Olajuyin, Ayobami Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.biteb.2021.100713

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“…The changes in the behavioral patterns of urban mobility are clearly confirmed by the spatial patterns of environmental impact in the different areas of the city where that type of behavior can be seen more clearly reflected (main entrances and points of high traffic concentration). This therefore reflects a dual situation in which, after an initial phase of general reduction in mobility and thus its environmental impacts [43], the effects of the pandemic did not result in a reduction in greenhouse gases, but rather a change of the behavioral patterns of urban mobility that favors a trend of higher environmental impact (but still not higher in total numbers) than the one that existed before the pandemic.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The results obtained reflect a more complex reality than that currently inferred on many occasions in relation to the effects of the pandemic in the context of urban mobility in cities, and consequently of the environmental impact of this phenomenon. It is evident that the general paralysis of economic activity, as a result of the inability of developed countries to cope with the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the first months after the declaration of the worldwide pandemic situation, led to a planet-wide reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, as confirmed by numerous studies [40][41][42][43].…”

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Spatial Analysis of Environmental Impacts Linked to Changes in Urban Mobility Patterns during COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Cartagena Case Study

García-Ayllón

Kyriakidis

2022

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The impact of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 on urban pollution in our cities is a proven fact, although its mechanisms are not known in great detail. The change in urban mobility patterns due to the restrictions imposed on the population during lockdown is a phenomenon that can be parameterized and studied from the perspective of spatial analysis. This study proposes an analysis of the guiding parameters of these changes from the perspective of spatial analysis. To do so, the case study of the city of Cartagena, a medium-sized city in Spain, has been analyzed throughout the period of mobility restrictions due to COVID-19. By means of a geostatistical analysis, changes in urban mobility patterns and the modal distribution of transport have been correlated with the evolution of environmental air quality indicators in the city. The results show that despite the positive effect of the pandemic in its beginnings on the environmental impact of urban mobility, the changes generated in the behavior patterns of current mobility users favor the most polluting modes of travel in cities.

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confidence: 92%

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confidence: 92%

Spatial Analysis of Environmental Impacts Linked to Changes in Urban Mobility Patterns during COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Cartagena Case Study

García-Ayllón

Kyriakidis

2022

Land

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“…The lockdown imposed by the COVID19 emergency in spring 2020 caused a prolonged stop or decrease of several human activities and related pressures (approximately 2.5 months of complete stop from mid-March to early June). This stop has been reported to have positive effects on air and water quality, noise pollution (Braga et al, 2020;Lamprecht et al, 2021;Čurović et al, 2021) and resulted in an overall increase of the environmental quality (Lal et al, 2021;Abubakar et al, 2021), but information on its effects on benthic marine assemblages is non-existent to the best of our knowledge.…”

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Positive effects of the decrease of hydraulic dredging due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on benthic fauna and clam harvesting in the northern Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea)

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The Northern Adriatic Sea is historically subjected to intensive bottom trawling and hydraulic dredging for clam harvesting, which are known to have deleterious effects on benthic habitats. In order to gather information on the destructive impact of hydraulic dredging, we investigated the abundance and assemblage composition of soft-bottom macrofauna in a coastal area of the North Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea), by comparing the year before and the year after the reduction of the fishing effort imposed by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our results indicate that macrofaunal assemblages changed significantly in abundance and composition. While bivalves doubled their abundance, other opportunistic scavenger taxa decreased or disappeared. Despite dredging intensity decreased more than 50% in 2020, the harvesting of Chamelea gallina increased from 18,706 tons in 2019 to 19,092 tons in 2020. Overall, it could be concluded that the decrease in clam fishing effort imposed by the lockdown resulted in an increase of the yearly clam harvesting. Our study points out that the recovery of soft-bottom macrofaunal assemblages due to the long-term decrease of clam harvesting has potentially important benefits, and that the establishment of long fishing stops, or of fishery restricted areas / marine protected areas could lead to a more sustainable fishery and the potential increase of the clam fishery yields.

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“…Nations have experienced increased terrorism, wars, political tensions, and conflicts, to say the least. Geopolitical risk has economic, social and political impacts, which have been reported to impact on environmental degradation 1 . For example, the multiplier impacts of some specific geopolitical events, such as the September 11 (9/11) Trade Tower attack in the US, Bombay attack and China-US trade wars, among others have impacted on investors and affected business decisions across the globe.…”

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Geopolitical Risk, Globalization and Environmental Degradation in South Africa: Evidence from Advanced Quantiles Approach

Lawal¹,

Aladenika²,

Akadırı³

et al. 2023

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Sustainable development involves the incorporation of socio-economic concerns and environmental protection into the economic decision-making process, in such a way that, any developmental effort would eventually be favorable to immediate and future generations. It is against this backdrop this study investigates the effects of geopolitical risk and globalization on environmental degradation in South Africa over the period 1985Q1-2018Q4. This study improves on existing studies and raises concerns on the potential twin-effect of geopolitical risk and globalization on the environment. We deviate from the existing studies that make use of the mean causality approaches that do not consider possible dependence in the conditional tail of the series distribution. To examine whether the causality exists among the series, we make use of the novel Troster (2018) Granger non-causality in condition quantiles, which captures the pattern of causality in various quantiles. Empirical results show that there is feedback causality nexus between geopolitical risk and CO2 emissions. In majority of the quantiles, feedback causality is also observed between globalization and CO2 emissions. We find a bidirectional Granger causality nexus between geopolitical risk and environmental degradation, and between globalization and environmental degradation. Globalization and geopolitical risk negatively influence environmental degradation. We conclude that environmental degradation is not driven by globalization and geopolitical risk in South Africa, among other policy suggestions.

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The impacts of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability: A brief study in world context

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

Spatial Analysis of Environmental Impacts Linked to Changes in Urban Mobility Patterns during COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Cartagena Case Study

Spatial Analysis of Environmental Impacts Linked to Changes in Urban Mobility Patterns during COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Cartagena Case Study

Positive effects of the decrease of hydraulic dredging due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on benthic fauna and clam harvesting in the northern Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea)

Geopolitical Risk, Globalization and Environmental Degradation in South Africa: Evidence from Advanced Quantiles Approach

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