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Covid-19 interactions with our Environment
UCL Open: Environment is running this on-going call for papers concerned with the effects on the environment that are and will be consequential on the societal restrictions and subsequent recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submissions may be research articles directly concerned with environmental issues (such as those linked to air quality or environmental noise or biodiversity – including its consumption or human ecology) or ones that address strategic, policy or operational matters at the interface of disease and the environment, as well as social implications of the pandemic and the environmental changes connected to it. Papers should be strongly interdisciplinary either in terms of the author’s skill sets or subject matter. Discussion and research papers are equally welcome.
We already know something about how the pandemic and the response to it is affecting the environment but we want to help draw together what is known, what is being learnt and begin that debate on the implications the pandemic has for people’s intersections with the environment and further what this might mean for the vulnerability and resilience we need to tackle the SDGs and make the world a better place.
Submission
Submission is open to anyone. For more information or to enquire about submission, please contact the Editors at uclopen.environment@ucl.ac.uk.
Authors should read through the journals author guidelines and publishing policies before submitting (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/site/authorguidelines). Please go to https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/submissions to submit to the journal.
All published articles (after peer review and editorial acceptance) in this series will be additionally indexed in PubMed Central as part of the Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative.
UCL Press offers waivers and discounts for Article-Processing Charges (APCs) including for articles whose corresponding authors are based in low-income countries (see https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/site/about for more information). Authors are requested to contact the Editorial office (uclopen.environment@ucl.ac.uk) prior to submission to enquire and request these discounts. Please note that authors ability to pay any charges regarding to publication are kept separate to editorial review and Editors are not responsible for determining these waivers and discounts.
Note about data
Prior to submission, all authors should ensure that the data relied upon for the paper are either deposited in publicly available repositories (for example, such as GenBank, TreeBASE, Dryad, the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity or other suitable long-term and stable public repositories, see below notice on data repositories) whenever possible, or have included in the main text for open peer review.
For further information, including about FAIR data sharing, UCL have prepared some useful information about when, where, and how to share data as openly as possible, here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/research-support/research-data-management/best-practices/how-guides/sharing-data.
General repositories – for all types of research data (such as Figshare) – may be used where appropriate. UCL authors are encouraged to use the UCL Research Data Repository (please see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/research-support/research-data-management/ucl-research-data-repository)
Series Editors
Dr Francesco Aletta, Research Associate, Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, UCL, UK
Prof Julien S Baker, Head of Department, Sport, Physical Education and Health, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Prof Dan Osborn, Chair of Human Ecology, Earth Sciences, UCL, UK
Editorial
The COVID-19 global challenge and its implications for the environment – what we are learning
Francesco Aletta and Dan Osborn
2020-05-11 Covid-19 interactions with our Environment
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Research article
The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change on water use and supply: experience of Istanbul, Türkiye
Ferhat Yilmaz, Dan Osborn and Michel Tsamados
2023-07-04 Volume 5 • 2023
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Reflections, resilience and recovery: a qualitative study of Covid-19’s impact on an international adult population’s mental health and priorities for support
Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Kimberly Loke and Kyleigh Marie Kai-Li Melville
2022-11-30 Volume 4 • 2022
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The effects of cumulative stressful educational events on the mental health of doctoral students during the Covid-19 pandemic
Vassilis Sideropoulos, Emily Midouhas, Theodora Kokosi, Jana Brinkert, Keri Ka-Yee Wong and Maria A. Kambouri
2022-11-07 Volume 4 • 2022
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Self-perceived loneliness and depression during the Covid-19 pandemic: a two-wave replication study
Alessandro Carollo, Andrea Bizzego, Giulio Gabrieli, Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Adrian Raine and Gianluca Esposito
2022-11-02 Volume 4 • 2022
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A three-timepoint network analysis of Covid-19’s impact on schizotypal traits, paranoia and mental health through loneliness
Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Yi Wang, Gianluca Esposito and Adrian Raine
2022-10-31 Volume 4 • 2022
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Child externalising and internalising behaviour and parental wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic
Jill Portnoy, AnaCristina Bedoya and Keri Ka-Yee Wong
2022-09-15 Volume 4 • 2022
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The impact and effectiveness of the general public wearing masks to reduce the spread of pandemics in the UK: a multidisciplinary comparison of single-use masks versus reusable face masks
Ayşe Lisa Allison, Esther Ambrose-Dempster, Maria Bawn, Miguel Casas Arredondo, Charnett Chau, Kimberley Chandler, Dragana Dobrijevic, Teresa Domenech Aparasi, Helen C. Hailes, Paola Lettieri, Chao Liu, Francesca Medda, Susan Michie, Mark Miodownik, Beth Munro, Danielle Purkiss and John M. Ward
2021-08-24 Volume 3 • 2021
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Ticking time bomb: implications of the COVID-19 lockdown on e-waste management in developing countries
Oluwadamilola A. Adejumo and Olubisi F. Oluduro
2021-08-03 Volume 3 • 2021
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An engineering model of the COVID-19 trajectory to predict the success of isolation initiatives
Steven King and Alberto Striolo
2021-07-15 Volume 3 • 2021
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Effect of lockdown on activities of daily living in the built environment and wellbeing
Sudhir Kumar Pasala, Lakshmi Gumpeny, Madhu Kosuri, Snehalatha Tippana and Gumpeny R. Sridhar
2021-04-20 Volume 3 • 2021
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Open commentary
COVID-19 & informal settlements: is ‘Stay Home’ safe?
Emily Nix, Jacob Paulose, Monica Lakhanpaul, Pam Factor-Litvak, Priti Parikh, Hector Altamirano-Medina, Yasmin Bou Karim and Logan Manikam
2022-07-28 Volume 4 • 2022
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The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary
Elizabeth Corker, Kaloyan Mitev, Astrid Nilsson Lewis, Milan Tamis, Thijs Bouman, Stefan Holmlid, Fiona Lambe, Susan Michie, Matthew Osborne, Reint Jan Renes, Linda Steg and Lorraine Whitmarsh
2022-02-23 Volume 4 • 2022
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Application of transparent microperforated panels to acrylic partitions for desktop use: A case study by prototyping
Kimihiro Sakagami, Midori Kusaka, Takeshi Okuzono, Shigeyuki Kido and Daichi Yamaguchi
2021-07-09 Volume 3 • 2021
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Some considerations on the use of space sound absorbers with next-generation materials reflecting COVID situations in Japan: additional sound absorption for post-pandemic challenges in indoor acoustic environments
Kimihiro Sakagami and Takeshi Okuzono
2020-11-17 Volume 2 • 2020
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COVID-19 and informal settlements – implications for water, sanitation and health in India and Indonesia
Priti Parikh, Yasmin Bou Karim, Jacob Paulose, Pam Factor-Litvak, Emily Nix, Dewi Nur Aisyah, Hemant Chaturvedi, Logan Manikam and Monica Lakhanpaul
2020-09-06 Volume 2 • 2020
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Reflections on trust and COVID-19: do politics, medicine and the environment need each other?
Alistair Cole, Frederic Dutheil and Julien S. Baker
2020-08-26 Volume 2 • 2020
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