Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected all countries and the global scientific agenda, particularly that of health, economy, environment, geography and geosciences in general. This Special Issue is also a contribution to the global efforts of the scientific community in the analysis of the geography of the COVID-19 pandemic with public health, economic and environmental consequences. Two blocks of papers are considered: (1) the socio-spatial, statistical and geographical analysis of COVID-19 distributions; and (2) the impacts of the pandemic lockdown on the environment, air pollution, and the quality of water.
Highlights
INTRODUCTIONThe COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected all countries and the global scientific agenda, that of health, economy, environment, geography and geosciences in general
TO GEOGRAPHY OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected all countries and the global scientific agenda, that of health, economy, environment, geography and geosciences in general
The global research community calls for contributions based on data-driven and theory-based approaches to health in the context of global change (Schertzer et al 2020). This includes: (i) main lessons from lockdowns, (ii) how to get the best scientific results during the corona pandemic? (iii) how to manage field works, geographical monitoring and planetary missions? (iv) qualitative improvements in epidemic modelling, with nonlinear, stochastic, and complex system science approaches; (v) eventual interactions between environmental, weather, climate factors and epidemic/health problems; (vi) new surveillance capabilities, data access, assimilation and multidimensional analysis techniques; (vii) a fundamental revision of our urban systems, their greening and their need for mobility; (viii) a special focus on urban biodiversity, especially to better managing virus vectors; (ix) national and urban resilience must include the resilience to epidemics, and requires revisions of urban governance
Summary
The impacts of the pandemic lockdown on the environment, air pollution, and water quality are considered in (Chubarova et al 2021; Sari et al 2021; Islam et al 2021; Arakelov et al 2021). The analysis of changes in concentration of different atmospheric gas and aerosol species during the COVID-19 lockdown has been made using ground-based and satellite measurements for different geographical regions: Iran (Sari et al 2021), India (Islam et al 2021) and Moscow megacity in Russia (Chubarova et al 2021). In this paper the results of the hydrochemical analysis of the Kuban’s Black Sea Waters were considered in the conditions of the 2020 quarantine They concluded that its most visible impact was a disproportionate decrease of the recreational pressure which reduced the concentration of the main pollutants. Though the petroleum refineries in the city of Tuapse did not stop during the quarantine period, the concentration of petroleum derivates dropped sharply
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