Indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment
| Autor: | Luis Sanchez-Alcalde, Maria Alejandra Ruano, Manuel A. Zambrano-Monserrate |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Pneumonia Viral Air pollution Environmental pollution 010501 environmental sciences Environment medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Bathing Beaches Betacoronavirus Environmental protection Air Pollution medicine Environmental Chemistry Humans Environmental impact assessment Recycling China Environmental noise Air quality index Waste Management and Disposal Pandemics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Contamination Pollution Greenhouse gas Environmental science Coronavirus Infections Environmental Pollution Noise |
| Zdroj: | Science of The Total Environment |
| ISSN: | 1879-1026 |
| Popis: | This research aims to show the positive and negative indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment, particularly in the most affected countries such as China, USA, Italy, and Spain. Our research shows that there is a significant association between contingency measures and improvement in air quality, clean beaches and environmental noise reduction. On the other hand, there are also negative secondary aspects such as the reduction in recycling and the increase in waste, further endangering the contamination of physical spaces (water and land), in addition to air. Global economic activity is expected to return in the coming months in most countries (even if slowly), so decreasing GHG concentrations during a short period is not a sustainable way to clean up our environment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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