The global impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air pollution: A critical review and recommendations

GI Gkatzelis, JB Gilman, SS Brown, H Eskes… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic led to government interventions to limit the
spread of the disease which are unprecedented in recent history; for example, stay at home …

[HTML][HTML] Cities in the times of COVID-19: Trends, impacts, and challenges for urban sustainability and resilience

JRE Hernández, ST Moghadam, A Sharifi… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, understanding its impacts on cities has
received much attention in science and policy circles. This paper systematically reviews the …

Changes of air pollution between countries because of lockdowns to face COVID-19 pandemic

AP Akan, M Coccia - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The goal of this study is to analyze how levels of air pollution changed between countries
with their restriction policy of lockdown to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study …

Lockdown amid COVID-19 ascendancy over ambient particulate matter pollution anomaly

MA Hassan, T Mehmood, E Lodhi, M Bilal… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Air is a diverse mixture of gaseous and suspended solid particles. Several new substances
are being added to the air daily, polluting it and causing human health effects. Particulate …

Lockdown: How the COVID-19 pandemic affected the fishing activities in the Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea)

E Russo, M Anelli Monti, G Toninato… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought a global socio-economic crisis to
almost all sectors including the fishery. To limit the infection, governments adopted several …

Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on air pollutant levels and associated reductions in ischemic stroke incidence in Shandong Province, China

H Wu, Z Lu, J Wei, B Zhang, X Liu, M Zhao… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Local governments in China took restrictive measures after the outbreak of
COVID-19 to control its spread, which unintentionally resulted in reduced anthropogenic …

Machine learning and meteorological normalization for assessment of particulate matter changes during the COVID-19 lockdown in Zagreb, Croatia

M Lovrić, M Antunović, I Šunić, M Vuković… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the authors investigated changes in mass concentrations of particulate matter
(PM) during the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown. Daily samples of PM1 …

Dynamic common correlated effects of pandemic uncertainty on environmental quality: fresh insights from East-Asia and Pacific countries

Z Liu, P Pang, W Fang, S Ali, MK Anser - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2022 - Springer
It is well known that pandemic-related uncertainty affects various macroeconomic indicators,
including environmental quality. Due to pandemic outbreaks, the reduction in economic …

Eco-environmental aspects of COVID-19 pandemic and potential control strategies

R Nazir, J Ali, I Rasul, E Widemann… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
A new coronavirus-strain from a zoonotic reservoir (probably bat)—termed as severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—has recently claimed more than two …

Predicting the impact of change in air quality patterns due to COVID-19 lockdown policies in multiple urban cities of henan: a deep learning approach

MA Bhatti, Z Song, UA Bhatti, N Ahmad - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Several countries implemented prevention and control measures in response to the 2019
new coronavirus virus (COVID-19) pandemic. To study the impact of the lockdown due to …