• Covid-19 interactions with our Environment

    Covid-19 interactions with our Environment


A collection 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.

Articles 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.

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)


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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Issue: Volume 2 • 2020

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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Collection: Covid-19 and Mental Health

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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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Collection: Covid-19 and Mental Health

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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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Collection: Covid-19 and Mental Health

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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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Collection: Covid-19 and Mental Health

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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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How did the ‘state of emergency’ declaration in Japan due to the COVID-19 pandemic affect the acoustic environment in a rather quiet residential area?

Kimihiro Sakagami

2020-08-11 Volume 2 • 2020

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