Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs |
| Authors: |
Robert Barouki, Manolis Kogevinas, Karine Audouze, Kristine Belesova, Ake Bergman, Linda Birnbaum, Sandra Boekhold, Sebastien Denys, Celine Desseille, Elina Drakvik, Howard Frumkin, Jeanne Garric, Delphine Destoumieux-Garzon, Andrew Haines, Anke Huss, Genon Jensen, Spyros Karakitsios, Jana Klanova, Iida-Maria Koskela, Francine Laden, Francelyne Marano, Eva Franziska Matthies-Wiesler, George Morris, Julia Nowacki, Riikka Paloniemi, Neil Pearce, Annette Peters, Aino Rekola, Denis Sarigiannis, Katerina Šebková, Remy Slama, Brigit Staatsen, Cathryn Tonne, Roel Vermeulen, Paolo Vineis |
| Source: |
Environment International, Vol 146, Iss , Pp 106272- (2021) |
| Publisher Information: |
Elsevier, 2021. |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Environmental sciences |
| Subject Terms: |
SARS-COV-2, Biodiversity, Urbanization, Climate, Chemicals, Transformational change, Environmental sciences, GE1-350 |
| More Details: |
The outbreak of COVID-19 raised numerous questions on the interactions between the occurrence of new infections, the environment, climate and health. The European Union requested the H2020 HERA project which aims at setting priorities in research on environment, climate and health, to identify relevant research needs regarding Covid-19. The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 appears to be related to urbanization, habitat destruction, live animal trade, intensive livestock farming and global travel. The contribution of climate and air pollution requires additional studies. Importantly, the severity of COVID-19 depends on the interactions between the viral infection, ageing and chronic diseases such as metabolic, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and obesity which are themselves influenced by environmental stressors. The mechanisms of these interactions deserve additional scrutiny. Both the pandemic and the social response to the disease have elicited an array of behavioural and societal changes that may remain long after the pandemic and that may have long term health effects including on mental health. Recovery plans are currently being discussed or implemented and the environmental and health impacts of those plans are not clearly foreseen. Clearly, COVID-19 will have a long-lasting impact on the environmental health field and will open new research perspectives and policy needs. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
0160-4120 |
| Relation: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322273; https://doaj.org/toc/0160-4120 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.envint.2020.106272 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/5b7e4a64e4bc4949baf6c4af6f01ad4b |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.5b7e4a64e4bc4949baf6c4af6f01ad4b |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
