Editorial: Root causes and policy dilemmas of the COVID-19 pandemic global disaster

Alcántara-Ayala, Irasema; Burton, Ian; Lavell, Allan; Mansilla, Elizabeth; Maskrey, Andrew; Oliver‐Smith, Anthony; Ramírez-Gómez, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101892

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“…This declaration means that the COVID-19 disaster is much more impactful than other previous crises such as SARS, MERS and H1N1 [ 2 ]. The disaster has disturbed social activities and consumed over $82 trillion globally [ 3 ]. Although disasters are often regarded as sudden, unpredictable events, acts of nature, and fate, they are ongoing processes associated with misinformed development [ 3 ].…”

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What shapes people's willingness to wear a face mask at the beginning of a public health disaster? A qualitative study based on COVID-19 in China

Kwok

Yan

Huang

et al. 2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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COVID-19 should not be the world's last public health disaster, so there is an urgent need to learn from COVID-19 to prepare better for the next public health disaster. This study aims to understand the factors that make people wear a face mask at the beginning of an outbreak of public health disaster. Semi-structured interviews were conducted during April 2020 in China, one month after the COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. The respondents were members of the public living in China, covering two age groups: young adults and older adults. They were recruited using a convenient sample and snowball sampling strategy. The results were analysed using content analysis. Seventeen subjects were recruited, among which nine were young adults (average age = 26.4; SD = 10.5), and eight were older adults (average age = 60.4; SD = 12.1). This study found that environmental factors, personal factors, factors concerning wearing masks, specific circumstances, and development of the pandemic were the common factors considered by both young adults and older adults. This study should help the authority formulate prevention policies better to reduce the risk of an outbreak if there is a new virus outbreak in the future, unfortunately.

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confidence: 99%

What shapes people's willingness to wear a face mask at the beginning of a public health disaster? A qualitative study based on COVID-19 in China

Kwok

Yan

Huang

et al. 2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“… Expressive approach Lockdown measures negatively affect international tourism and its revenue leading to an increase in its cost. Further, it increases healthcare issues and job insecurity, which affect the sustainability agenda Fan et al ( 2021 ) Asia Food challenges, supply chain, and COVID-19 pandemic Descriptive COVID-19 pandemic affects the food supply chain in a region Alcántara-Ayala et al ( 2021 ) Global economies Healthcare disasters and COVID-19 Discussion COVID-19 increases healthcare risks and exposure to the virus, causing severe healthcare emergencies worldwide Irfan et al ( 2021 ) Four countries COVID-19 cases, NO 2 , PM 2.5 , waste Expressive approach COVID-19 decreases air pollution levels and waste recycling Morgan et al ( 2021 ) Developing countries COVID-19, environment, and economic impacts Expressive approach COVID-19 negatively influenced global income and sustainability indicators that need to be overcome by better waste management practices and commitment to mitigate environmental concerns across countries Magazzino et al ( 2021 ) Brazil COVID-19 cases, renewable energy, and economic growth Artificial neural networks Renewable energy helps to increase economic output in the time of COVID-19 Sharif et al ( 2020 ) USA COVID-19-infected cases, oil prices, stock price index, and geopolitical risk index Wavelet approach COVID-19 pandemic increases the country’s geopolitical risk, economic uncertainty, stock market volatility, and oil shocks Salisu et al ( 2020 ) Ten countries COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, and stock market index Panel VAR modeling technique Oil prices and the stock market index are moving in the opposite direction Aruna and Rajesh ( 2020 ) India COVID-19 pandemic, oil price shocks, and stock returns SVAR-X technique Stock returns positively influenced by oil price shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, while oil exports shock negatively influenced stock returns in the current pandemic Mazur et al ( …”

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Financial development, oil resources, and environmental degradation in pandemic recession: to go down in flames

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Khan

Zaman

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a deadly disease that increases global healthcare sufferings. Further, it affects the financial and natural resource market simultaneously, as both are considered complementary goods. The volatility in the oil prices deteriorates the global financial market to substantiate the “financial resource (oil) curse” hypothesis primarily filled with earlier studies. In contrast, this study moved forward and extended the given relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic in a panel of 81 different countries. The study’s main objective is to examine the volatility in the domestic credit provided to the private sector due to oil shocks and the COVID-19 pandemic across countries. The study is essential to assess the healthcare vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the damage of financial stability, causing deterioration in the oil rents to affect the global sustainability agenda. The study employed statistical techniques to get sound inferences of the parameter estimates, including robust least squares regression, seemingly unrelated regression, and innovation accounting matrix to get a variable estimate at the level and inter-temporal framework. The results confirmed the U-shaped relationship between oil rents and financial development during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, it verifies the “financial resource (oil) curse” hypothesis at the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later down, it supports the capital market when economies are resuming their economic activities and maintaining the SOPs to restrain coronavirus at a global scale. The qualitative assessment confirmed the negative effect of financial development and oil shocks on environmental quality during the pandemic crisis. The innovation accounting matrix shows that the COVID-19 pandemic will primarily be the main factor that intervenes in the relationship between oil rents and financial development, which proceed towards the “resource curse” hypothesis during the following years’ time period. Therefore, the need for long-term economic policies is highly desirable to support the financial and resource market under the suggested guidelines of restraining coronavirus worldwide.

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“…As a global disaster, the COVID-19 pandemic once again highlights the importance of the root causes of the human vulnerability to disaster risks-inequality, poverty, and exclusion. Without addressing those fundamental underlying causes, those most affected will see their risks increase (Alcántara-Ayala et al 2020). A latest model estimation by the Economist suggests that COVID-19 has claimed 7.1-12.7 million lives worldwide, which is more than three times of the official count (Economist 2021a).…”

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Coordination and Cooperation are Essential: A Call for a Global Network to Enhance Integrated Human Health Risk Resilience Based on China’s COVID-19 Pandemic Coping Practice

Sun

Liu

et al. 2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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More than a year after its appearance and still rampant around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted tragically how poorly the world is prepared to handle systemic risks in an increasingly hyper-connected global social-ecological system. The absence or clear inadequacy of global governance arrangements and mechanisms is painfully distinct and obvious. In this short article, we summarize a set of COVID-19 pandemic-related analyses and lessons that are inspired by Chinese practice. First, strong government response is one of the most important methods to control a pandemic. Second, countries should be concerned about human-to-frozen goods-to-human transmission. Third, sharing resources and experiences through cooperation is crucial to ensure an adequate health response. Based on these insights, we stress the critical importance of coordination and cooperation, and call for a global network to enhance integrated human health risk resilience.

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Editorial: Root causes and policy dilemmas of the COVID-19 pandemic global disaster

Cited by 43 publications

References 6 publications

What shapes people's willingness to wear a face mask at the beginning of a public health disaster? A qualitative study based on COVID-19 in China

What shapes people's willingness to wear a face mask at the beginning of a public health disaster? A qualitative study based on COVID-19 in China

Financial development, oil resources, and environmental degradation in pandemic recession: to go down in flames

Coordination and Cooperation are Essential: A Call for a Global Network to Enhance Integrated Human Health Risk Resilience Based on China’s COVID-19 Pandemic Coping Practice

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