COVID-19-induced visitor boom reveals the importance of forests as critical infrastructure

J Derks, L Giessen, G Winkel - Forest Policy and Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the globe have
implemented a certain degree of lockdown, restricting citizens' freedom of movement and …

COVID-19 and human-nature relationships: Vermonters' activities in nature and associated nonmaterial values during the pandemic

JW Morse, TM Gladkikh, DM Hackenburg, RK Gould - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly modified Earth's social-ecological systems in many
ways; here we study its impacts on human-nature interactions. We conducted an online …

Emotional well-being under conditions of lockdown: An experience sampling study in Austria during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Stieger, D Lewetz, V Swami - Journal of happiness studies, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and attendant lockdown measures present
serious threats to emotional well-being worldwide. Here, we examined the extent to which …

Coping with crisis: Green space use in Helsinki before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Korpilo, A Kajosaari, T Rinne… - … in Sustainable Cities, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged a deeper exploration about how people deal with
crisis. This paper presents one of the first pre-and during-pandemic assessments of urban …

COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Tyrol, Austria: sports and exercise behaviour in change?

M Schnitzer, SE Schöttl, M Kopp, M Barth - Public Health, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives The aim of the study was to investigate differences in the frequency and types of
engagement in sports before, during and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior

SR Midway, AJ Lynch, BK Peoples, M Dance… - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Recreational angling in the United States (US) is largely a personal hobby that scales up to
a multibillion-dollar economic activity. Given dramatic changes to personal decisions and …

Citizens' use of public urban green spaces at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

B Claudia, CM Giulia, C Alessandro… - Urban forestry & urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Since early 2020, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly,
quickly becoming a global pandemic. To counter the COVID-19 outbreak, national …

After the anthropause: Lockdown lessons for more‐than‐human geographies

A Searle, J Turnbull, J Lorimer - The Geographical Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The drastic reductions in human activities and mobilities associated with quarantines
implemented to curb the spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 was recently described as “the …

Effects of physical distancing to control COVID-19 on public health, the economy, and the environment

SC Newbold, D Finnoff, L Thunström… - Environmental and …, 2020 - Springer
Physical distancing measures are important tools to control disease spread, especially in the
absence of treatments and vaccines. While distancing measures can safeguard public …

Leisure experience and participation and its contribution to stress-related growth amid COVID-19 pandemic

HL Liu, ES Lavender-Stott, CL Carotta, AS Garcia - Leisure Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter daily life and its long-term impact remains
unknown, research is needed to examine the effects of this unprecedented pandemic on …