Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

Barlow, Jonathan; Vodenska, Irena

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“…The persistence of elevated fishing effort hints at extensive and long term societal changes resulting from COVID-19 lockdowns. Such changes are widely documented in economic systems (31), healthcare (32) and travel (33), but are less recognised in the context of outdoor recreation and potential human impacts on the natural world. Anecdotal evidence and published studies have already suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic drove large increases in recreational fishing activity, especially in the developed world (9,(20)(21)(22)34).…”

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High-resolution app data reveal sustained increases in recreational fishing effort in Europe during and after COVID-19 lockdowns

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Gonzalez²,

Dainys³

et al. 2022

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It is manifest that COVID-19 lockdowns extensively impacted human interactions with natural ecosystems. One example is recreational fishing, an activity which involves nearly 1 in 10 people in developed countries. Fishing licence sales and direct observations at popular angling locations suggest that recreational fishing effort increased substantially during lockdowns. However, the extent and duration of this increase remain largely unknown due to a lack of objective data. We used four years (2018 to 2021) of anonymous, high-resolution data from a personal fish-finder device to explore the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on recreational fishing effort in four European countries (Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Germany). We show that device use and, by extension, angling effort increased 1.2-3.8 fold during March-May 2020 and remained elevated even at the end of 2021 in all countries except Denmark. Fishing during the first lockdown also became more frequent during weekdays. Statistical models with the full set of fixed (weekdays, lockdown, population) and random (season, year, administrative unit) factors typically explained 50-70% of the variation, suggesting that device use and angling effort were relatively consistent and predictable through space and time. Our study demonstrates that recreational fishing behaviour can change substantially and rapidly in response to societal shifts, with profound ecological, human well-being and economic implications. We also show the potential of angler devices and smartphone applications to supply data for high-resolution fishing effort analysis and encourage more extensive science and industry collaborations to take advantage of this information.

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High-resolution app data reveal sustained increases in recreational fishing effort in Europe during and after COVID-19 lockdowns

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Gonzalez²,

Dainys³

et al. 2022

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“…In particular, the pandemic constituted a moving feast of unidentified risks, so-called 'unknown unknowns', which could not have been planned for. Evidence shows the complex outcomes of COVID-19 on society, the environment, and the economy [7][8][9][10][11], in addition to how negative impacts have been experienced differently between social groups and across world regions [12,13]. Education and scientific research have also been severely impacted [14] with disproportionate effects reported based on: (i) gender, with females being impacted most severely because they traditionally undertake a higher share of home and childcare responsibilities [15][16][17][18]; (ii) the research field, with laboratory-based researchers disadvantaged because of the impracticality of home-working [18,19]; and (iii) academic career stage, with early career researchers on fixed-term contracts unable to travel to other institutes and field sites to collect data, build their research networks and professional profiles, and generate research outputs [20,21].…”

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Rethinking North–South Research Partnerships Amidst Global Uncertainties: Leveraging Lessons Learned from UK GCRF Projects during COVID-19

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Kandel

Austen

et al. 2023

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International research and development projects (or grand challenge projects) consist of multicultural, multi-country, multi-sectoral, and multi-stakeholder initiatives aimed at poverty reduction. They are usually conceived as partnerships between actors in the global north–south. The COVID-19 pandemic was a major unexpected disruption to ongoing projects and challenged their already complex management. The aim of this paper is to present evidence on how international development projects were impacted by COVID-19 with a particular focus on the relationship between research institutions in the north and south. We conducted a mixed-methods research study, combining a reflective exercise with the co-author team and a survey with principal investigators, project managers, and capacity development leads drawn from 31 Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) projects funded through the UK government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and focused on social–ecological system research. The survey contained closed- and open-ended questions in order to (i) demonstrate how those involved in managing projects adapted to risks, including both threats and opportunities, presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, and (ii) consider the implications for tailoring adaptive management approaches in international research projects amidst uncertainties, with a special focus on enhancing equities in global north–south partnerships. The paper offers the following recommendations on designing, planning, and implementing international research and development projects: (i) devolve project management in order to enhance project resilience and improve north–south equities; (ii) allocate dedicated resources to enable equitable north–south research partnerships; (iii) rely more on hybrid and agile approaches for managing a project’s life cycle; and (iv) improve resource flexibility, transparency, and communication through enhanced funder–implementer collaboration.

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“…Some researchers have worked on socio-economic analysis of COVID-19 pandemic, they are as follows : in [1], the authors examined the geoclimatic, demographic and socio-economic determinants of COVID-19 prevalence and have shown that the influence of these determinants varies by comparing the first and second wave of the pandemic. The socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in United State of America (USA) was studied by [2], where the authors investigate the systematic risk posted by sector-level industries within the USA. [3] modeled daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in different countries across the globe using regression models with predictions for upcoming scenarios.…”

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Modelling of COVID-19 pandemic vis-à-vis some socio-economic factors

Oshinubi

Rachdi

Demongeot

2021

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The impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on socio-economic status of countries across the globe cannot be overemphasized as we examine the role it played in various countries. A lot of people were out of jobs, many households were careful of their spending and a greater social fracture of the population in fourteen different countries has emerged. We considered periods of infection spread during the first and second wave in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and countries in Africa, that is developed and developing countries alongside their social-economic data. We established a mathematical and statistical relationship between Theil and Gini index, then we studied the relationship between the data from epidemiology and socio-economic determinants using several machine learning and deep learning methods. High correlations were observed between some of the socio-economic and epidemiologic parameters and we predicted three of the socio-economic variables in order to validate our results. These result shows a sharp difference between the first and second wave of the pandemic confirming the real dynamics of the spread of the outbreak in several countries and ways by which it was mitigated.

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Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

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High-resolution app data reveal sustained increases in recreational fishing effort in Europe during and after COVID-19 lockdowns

High-resolution app data reveal sustained increases in recreational fishing effort in Europe during and after COVID-19 lockdowns

Rethinking North–South Research Partnerships Amidst Global Uncertainties: Leveraging Lessons Learned from UK GCRF Projects during COVID-19

Modelling of COVID-19 pandemic vis-à-vis some socio-economic factors

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