Urbanization and biodiversity loss in the post-COVID-19 era: complex challenges and possible solutions

Rastandeh, Amin; Jarchow, Meghann

doi:10.1080/23748834.2020.1788322

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“…58,59 Overall, this strong evidence suggests that abnormalities in kidney health may be an early warning in identifying the impact of changes in the planetary health on overall human health. Finally, the social and economic consequences of the pandemic 60,61 are likely to further impact the availability and allocation of resources for healthcare, setting up a vicious cycle.…”

Section: One Healthmentioning

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COVID‐19 and care for patients with chronic kidney disease: Challenges and lessons

Divyaveer

Jha

2021

FASEB BioAdvances

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The COVID-19 pandemic has blurred the traditional distinction between communicable diseases (CD) and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The manifestations of COVID-19 range from an asymptomatic carrier state to fatal multiorgan failure. While initial reports did not report significant effects on the kidneys, it is now well established that kidney involvement (acute kidney injury, urinary abnormalities, tubular function defects) in COVID-19 is common and also associated with poorer outcomes. At the same time, care for patients with existing chronic kidney disease (CKD) has suffered during this pandemic and those with CKD are considered higher risk for severity of COVID-19 symptoms. Widespread lockdowns have affected the delivery of health care to patients with CKD, including those on dialysis or on transplant wait-lists. The pandemic has reinforced the need for accessible home-based therapies and highlighted the value of teleconsultation and remote monitoring technologies. COVID-19 has revealed the poor emergency preparedness by health systems around the world. It has underscored glaring inequities in availability of diagnostic tests and essential medications in different countries, including for dialysis. In response, there has been increasing recognition of the necessity of universal health coverage and in prioritizing vaccine distribution to serve the most vulnerable, including those with renal failure. The COVID-19 pandemic has also reaffirmed the role of the environment and ecosystems contributing to both CDs and NCDs. Attention to universal health coverage through a One Health approach is needed to prevent global health crises and prevent furtherkidney dysfunction and failure.

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COVID‐19 and care for patients with chronic kidney disease: Challenges and lessons

Divyaveer

Jha

2021

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“…Lennon [ 12 ] articulated this view, noting that issues of form and features, distribution, connectivity and resilience within planning are of paramount importance to our responses to Covid-19. Rastandeh and Jarchow [ 13 ] go further, outlining a program of action that places nature and enhanced ecological resources at the center of change. Both papers argue that issues of distribution and equity in spatial planning are complex and that any reaction to Covid-19 needs to take into account the scope of the ecological, economic and social factors influencing urban functionality and health.…”

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Access to Nature in a Post Covid-19 World: Opportunities for Green Infrastructure Financing, Distribution and Equitability in Urban Planning

Mell

Whitten

2021

IJERPH

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Covid-19 changed the way many people viewed and interacted with the natural environment. In the UK, a series of national lockdowns limited the number of places that individuals could use to support their mental and physical health. Parks, gardens, canals and other ”green infrastructure” (GI) resources remained open and were repositioned as “essential infrastructure” supporting well-being. However, the quality, functionality and location of GI in urban areas illustrated a disparity in distribution that meant that in many cases communities with higher ethnic diversity, lower income and greater health inequality suffered from insufficient access. This paper provides commentary on these issues, reflecting on how planners, urban designers and environmental organizations are positioning GI in decision-making to address inequality. Through a discussion of access and quality in an era of austerity funding, this paper proposes potential pathways to equitable environmental planning that address historical and contemporary disenfranchisement with the natural environment in urban areas.

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“…Pohl, 2022: 712). Noting the differential access enjoyed by wealthier suburbanites to green space, imagination of the desertified pandemic inner city suggested that post-COVID urban planning needs to insert accessible wildlife-supportive and vibrant green spaces in the heart of our cities (see Rastandeh and Jarchow, 2021).…”

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Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1: Social and spatial inequalities in the COVID-city

2023

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COVID-19 has had unprecedented impacts on urban life on a global scale, representing the worst pandemic in living memory. In this introduction to the first of two parts of a Special Issue on urban public health emergencies, we suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak, and associated attempts to manage the pandemic, reproduced and ultimately exacerbated the social and spatial divides that striate the contemporary city. Here, we draw on evidence from the papers in Part 1 of the Special Issue to summarise the uneven urban geographies of COVID-19 evident at the inter- and intra-urban level, emphasising the particular vulnerabilities and risks borne by racialised workers who found it difficult to practise social distancing in either their home or working life. Considering the interplay of environmental, social and biological factors that conspired to create hotspots of COVID-19 infection, and the way these are connected to the racialised capitalism that underpins contemporary urban development, this introduction suggests that reflection on public health emergencies in the city is not just essential from a policy perspective but helps enrich theoretical debates on the nature of contemporary urbanisation in its ‘planetary’ guise.

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Urbanization and biodiversity loss in the post-COVID-19 era: complex challenges and possible solutions

Cited by 22 publications

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COVID‐19 and care for patients with chronic kidney disease: Challenges and lessons

COVID‐19 and care for patients with chronic kidney disease: Challenges and lessons

Access to Nature in a Post Covid-19 World: Opportunities for Green Infrastructure Financing, Distribution and Equitability in Urban Planning

Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1: Social and spatial inequalities in the COVID-city

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