Environmental Resilience in the Pandemic Years 2020-2021: Covid-19 and Environmental Ecosystem

ISBN-13: 9783031477560 / Angielski

Darren Jones; Ahmed Jalal Khan Chowdhury; Anh Tuan Hoang

Spis treści

Improving air quality for well-being and resilience.- Improving access to clean water and sanitation and ensuring financial sustainability of utilities.- Addressing waste generation, management and recycling.- Halting and reversing biodiversity loss.

O autorze

Dr. Darren Jones is currently working as Scientific Research Advisor for International Water. Air & Soil Conservation Society, Malaysia. Previously, he has worked as Environmental Health Specialist at City and County of San Francisco, Oakland, California, USA. He has published many articles in international research journals and currently is Editor of two environmental management journals published by a reputable publisher.

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Jalal Khan Chowdhury is currently working as Professor at Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali, Brunei Darussalam. Previously, he has worked at many academic and research positions in different institutes. He has worked as Professor than Deputy Dean (postgraduate and research) than Head, Institute of Oceanography and Maritime Studies. Kulliyyah Science, IIUM at International Islamic University Malaysia from 1990 to 2021. He has published many research articles.

Professor Anh Tuan Hoang is Vice President of HUTECH University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He received Ph.D. Degree in 2016. His research interest lies in environmental management, energy conversion, and biofuels. He acted as Leader of numerous projects funded by Vietnamese government. He has published more than 100 scientific research papers in the field in international impact factors journals and some books related to environmental management.

Blurb

This book focuses on the indirect effects on environmental resilience. The COVID-19 epidemic and the 2020 global pandemic have had an unprecedented public health impact. These included not only economic impacts but also social activities, and environmental and ecological impacts. This study examined the fact that net effects were positive, for example, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, oil and gas exploration activities, and reductions in pollution. The most notable and most positive environmental impact of COVID-19 is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation sources. Air and road transport cause a huge portion of the pollution from closures and outages. Restrictions on economic and social mobility have had positive impacts, with reductions in transport and trade contributing significantly to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By increasing their scale, endangered ecosystems benefit from improved environmental quality.

To better understand how the environment is maintained, we summarize the evolution of COVID-19 and subsequent pandemics. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unexpected and lasting impact on the environment. At the same time, ecological hotspots where human activity is commonly prevalent benefit from improved environmental quality, allowing wildlife and other life forms to thrive. For this reason, we can conclude that the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent pandemic were beneficial to environmental stewardship.