Universidad Espíritu Santo, Ecuador.
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas, Campus Gustavo Galindo Km 30.5 Vía Perimetral, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Sci Total Environ. 2020 Aug 1;728:138813. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138813. Epub 2020 Apr 20.
This research aims to show the positive and negative indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment, particularly in the most affected countries such as China, USA, Italy, and Spain. Our research shows that there is a significant association between contingency measures and improvement in air quality, clean beaches and environmental noise reduction. On the other hand, there are also negative secondary aspects such as the reduction in recycling and the increase in waste, further endangering the contamination of physical spaces (water and land), in addition to air. Global economic activity is expected to return in the coming months in most countries (even if slowly), so decreasing GHG concentrations during a short period is not a sustainable way to clean up our environment.
本研究旨在展示 COVID-19 对环境的积极和消极间接影响，特别是在中国、美国、意大利和西班牙等受影响最严重的国家。我们的研究表明，应急措施与空气质量改善、清洁海滩和环境噪声降低之间存在显著关联。另一方面，也有一些负面的次要方面，例如回收减少和废物增加，这进一步危及物理空间（水和土地）的污染，除了空气。预计未来几个月大多数国家的全球经济活动将恢复（即使缓慢），因此，在短时间内降低温室气体浓度不是清洁我们环境的可持续方法。
