COVID-19 pandemic persuaded lockdown effects on environment over stone quarrying and crushing areas

I Mandal, S Pal - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Stone quarrying and crushing spits huge stone dust to the environment and causes threats
to ecosystem components as well as human health. Imposing emergency lockdown to stop …

The good, the bad and the ugly of lockdowns during Covid-19

T Greyling, S Rossouw, T Adhikari - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Amidst the rapid global spread of Covid-19, many governments enforced country-wide
lockdowns, with likely severe well-being consequences. In this regard, South Africa is an …

Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis

G Auld, S Bernstein, B Cashore, K Levin - Policy sciences, 2021 - Springer
COVID-19 has caused 100s of millions of infections and millions of deaths worldwide,
overwhelming health and economic capacities in many countries and at multiple scales. The …

How long should the COVID-19 lockdown continue?

J Caulkins, D Grass, G Feichtinger, R Hartl, PM Kort… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Nations struggled to decide when and how to end COVID-19 inspired lockdowns, with
sharply divergent views between those arguing for a resumption of economic activity and …

Worker stress, burnout, and wellbeing before and during the COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom

D Pelly, M Daly, L Delaney, O Doyle - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 created a transformational shift in the working environment for much of the labour
force, yet its impact on workers is unclear. This study uses longitudinal data to examine the …

The impact of postponing 2020 Tokyo Olympics on the happiness of O-MO-TE-NA-SHI workers in tourism: A consequence of COVID-19

E Yamamura, Y Tsutsui - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
pandemic. The implications for industries related to the Olympics—tourism, hotels and …

Exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic environment and generosity

P Branas-Garza, D Jorrat, A Alfonso… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We report data from an online experiment which allows us to study how generosity changed
over a 6-day period during the initial explosive growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in …

Trajectories of depressive symptoms among vulnerable groups in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

P Frank, E Iob, A Steptoe, D Fancourt - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Objective The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected many aspects
of the human condition, including mental health and psychological wellbeing. This study …

The willingness to pay for a hypothetical vaccine for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Y Tsutsui, S Shahrabani, E Yamamura… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study investigates how people in Japan perceived the severity of and probability of
infection from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and how their willingness to purchase …

Heterogeneous responses in Google Trends measures of well-being to the COVID-19 dynamic quarantines in Chile

F Díaz, PA Henríquez, D Winkelried - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We study how the Chilean population's well-being responded to the strategy implemented
by their health authorities, known as Dynamic Quarantine, to contain the spread of …