The impact of COVID-19 on water and food systems: flattening the much bigger curve ahead

Keulertz, Martin; Mulligan, Mark; Allan, John

doi:10.1080/02508060.2020.1779515

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“…Environmental specialists have more recently attempted to evaluate the effects of COVID-19 on food supply chain efficiency and security, i.e., the availability and delivery of food and its accessibility. This is an important issue in environmental research as after the COVID-19 crisis rose to the top of policy agendas, several decision makers warned of the problem of food supply and spikes of food prices ( Keulertz et al, 2020 ). Deaton and Deaton (2020), for instance, in their appraisal of Canada's food security and agricultural systems during the pandemic, noted that despite surges in demand and supply chain disruptions, there was no broad, rapid hike in food prices suggesting an adequate short-term supply of food.…”

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Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Casado‐Aranda

Sánchez‐Fernández

Viedma-del-Jesús

2021

Environmental Research

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The fight against COVID-19 since January 2020 has become the top priority of more than 200 countries. In order to offer solutions to eradicate this global pandemic, the scientific community has published hundreds of articles covering a wide range of areas of knowledge. With the aim of synthesizing these publications, academics are resorting to bibliometric analyses from the perspectives of the disciplines such as biology, medicine, socioeconomics and tourism. Yet no bibliometric analysis has explored the diffuse and little-known growth of COVID-19 scientific publications in the field of environmental studies. The current study is the first of this type to fill this research gap. It has resorted to SciMAT software to evaluate the main topics, authors and journals of publications on the subject of COVID-19 combined with environmental studies spanning the period between 1 December 2019 and 6 September 2020. The search yielded a collection of 440 articles published in scientific journals indexed on by Web of Science and Scopus databases. These publications can be broken down into six main themes: (i) a sharp reduction in air pollution and an improvement of the level of water pollution; (ii) the relationship of wind speed (positive), ultraviolet radiation (positive) and humidity (negative) with the rate of infections; (iii) the effect of the pandemic on the food supply chain and waste habits; (iv) wastewater monitoring offers a great potential as an early warning sign of COVID-19 transmission; (v) artificial intelligence and smart devices can be of great use in monitoring citizen mobilization; and (vi) the lessons gleaned from the pandemic that help define actions to mitigate climate change. The results of the current study therefore offer an agenda for future research and constitute a starting point for academics in the field of environmental studies to evaluate the effects of COVID-19.

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Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Casado‐Aranda

Sánchez‐Fernández

Viedma-del-Jesús

2021

Environmental Research

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“…However, this can deplete water resources in water-stressed areas, and groundwater sources that are not replenished may fall short for future generations. Water-scarce countries need access to the world food market and food-importing economies to mitigate their local water shortages (Keulertz et al 2020). New dynamics may emerge in the water-energy nexus, as well, because working from home has led to changes in the demand for energy.…”

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Water and Wastewater Systems and Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Berglund

Thelemaque

Spearing

et al. 2021

J. Water Resour. Plann. Manage.

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“…Since the advent of what Black feminist scholars describe as societal structures designed for accumulation (King 2019), the impact of settler colonial racial capitalism has been a well‐researched and discussed topic within academia and beyond. The material and moral crisis of societies designed for accumulation has recently been deepened and exacerbated by the advent of the global pandemic brought about by the evolution and spread of the SARS‐COV‐2 virus (Keulertz and Mulligan 2020; Zavaleta‐Cortijo et al. 2020).…”

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Food Security in the Era of COVID‐19: Wild Food Provisioning as Resilience During a Global Pandemic

Hall¹

2021

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐COV‐2) that causes COVID‐19 has had a devastating impact on human populations, infrastructure, and economies. The structures and systems that supply people with their basic needs have been stressed by the necessary changes COVID‐19 has rendered in everyday life. Here I explore the potential role of wild food provisioning in mitigating the acute impacts of COVID on food supply and its impacts more broadly on modern foodways. Wild food provisioning is a waning practice among human populations in the Global North, but recent research has shown that there are significant amounts of food produced and harvested on the landscape that go unaccounted for in food systems research. Building on this work, I theorize a framework for thinking about food systems that are inclusive of wild food provisioning practices and how said framework might increase the ability of human populations to withstand extreme disturbances such as a global pandemic.

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The impact of COVID-19 on water and food systems: flattening the much bigger curve ahead

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Water and Wastewater Systems and Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Food Security in the Era of COVID‐19: Wild Food Provisioning as Resilience During a Global Pandemic

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