Can this corona lockdown be used an instrument to find the solution to all the environmental problems Suggest some research topic/idea
Dear Kamal Jindal,
The development of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic causing Covid-19 disease can significantly change a person's thinking about his relationship to the environment. Due to this type of unusual, difficult to predict crises caused by natural factors may increase human respect for the forces of nature and perhaps increase the scale of implementation of sustainable development implemented in accordance with the concept of circular economy and / or green economy.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
no doubt the COVID-19 situation has brought the attention of scholars on environmental aspects ...this is a suitable time to deliberate the environmental science research towards these two variables..
The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic is first and foremost an issue of human health and safety. But as people have changed their everyday behaviors and patterns to contain or avoid the virus, there have been some subtle effects on the environment. Coal and oil industrial activities have dropped, so carbon dioxide emissions have also decreased. What nation worldwide are fail to control the amount of air pollution in so many years, with the spread of COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing and lockdown, significant change in pollution level can be observed worldwide. So definitely this COVID -19 pandemic experience given a new way to focus on environmental problem solution.
I am currently working on a discussion paper to this question. What lessons can be learned from the pandemic for economic and environmental policy? The crisis is currently showing us that globalization has clear limits and disadvantages.
The outbreak of the corona pandemic and the rapid spread, as well as the severe course of illnesses in connection with poor air quality made many scientists again ask about the connection between infectious diseases, economic activities and the general question of sustainability (see (Dutheil et al., 2020 ); (Vaughan, 2020); (Corlett et al., 2020); (Lucchese & Pianta, 2020)). Not only the positive observations of the apparently rapid recovery of some natural conditions due to the minimal economic level, but also the rapid spread and unexpected harshness of the virus pose questions about the future of the global economy. In the face of the corona crisis, global society has had to experience the limits of globalization. Gills (2020) even speaks of three globalization crises we are currently in; the capitalism crisis, the ecological crisis and the corona pandemic as a health crisis. The lessons we have to learn from this must address globalization directly and fight the emergence of these three crises. Here, of course, we can learn lessons that are aimed at improving air quality, but more regional consumption and production are also important core elements. One shouldn't forget the social component. In Germany we have a relatively good social security system. Countries like Italy don't have this, people lose their jobs and go looting because they have to eat. This forces us to think whether a basic income can also be an instrument to support in the crisis and after the crisis. Above all, I would like to appeal in the article to rethink and consider things like video conferencing, home office, regional production, environmental regulations and also the possible implementation of basic security with crisis-proof financing. If it is interesting for you: The crisis hypothesis of Drazen / Easterly is relevant here in economic theory: Far-reaching reforms are more likely in times of crisis. There are many logical explanations for this. I will have a discussion article on the topic ready in a few days and would be happy to receive feedback or co-authorship if anyone would like to participate
I think, environmental and social protection measures (especially, water, sanitation and public health provision) should receive the top priority (in the post-covid context) in academic as well as action research from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Such research programs should be integrated with the sustainable development goals agenda. While funding for this research can be a daunting task with national and provincial governments in many countries facing resource crunch, we should try to address the resource crunch problems by devising an effective partnership between the governments, the private/ corporate sector as well as the national and international civil society organisations.
Yes it can. For instance, Promotion of cleaner production and consumption activities through optical use of ICTs.
A pandemic is not a good reason to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the case of Russia, the coronavirus revealed the vulnerability of the hydrocarbon model of the economy, hitting oil prices. Once again, the question of the financial stability of countries whose economies are overly dependent on its production and exports has arisen. It is necessary to make the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions not forced, but conscious. And we have the first hope that this will happen in the long term: in 2019, global CO2 emissions in the energy sector did not increase for the first time after two years of growth. This was mainly due to advanced economies switching to renewable energy sources.
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