Taylor's Business School, Taylor's University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
Faculty of Technology, Natural and Maritime Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, Horten, Norway.
Sci Total Environ. 2020 Nov 25;745:141022. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141022. Epub 2020 Jul 17.
The current Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) outbreak has had a substantial impact on many aspects of general life. Although a number of studies have been published on the topic already, there has not been a critical review of studies on the impacts of COVID-19 by and on environmental factors. The current study fills this gap by presenting a critical analysis of 57 studies on the nexus between COVID-19 and the environment, published in nine journals up to May 2020. Majority of the studies in our sample are published in Science of the Total Environment (74%), and studies used mostly descriptive statistics and regression as research methods. We identified four underlying research clusters based on a systematic content analysis of the studies. The clusters are: (1) COVID-19 and environmental degradation, (2) COVID-19 and air pollution, (3) COVID-19 and climate/metrological factors and (4) COVID-19 and temperature. Besides a critical analysis of the studies in each cluster, we propose research questions to guide future research on the relationship between COVID-19 and the environment.
当前的冠状病毒感染（COVID-19）疫情对许多日常生活方面都产生了重大影响。尽管已经有许多关于该主题的研究发表，但还没有对 COVID-19 及其对环境因素影响的研究进行批判性综述。本研究通过对截至 2020 年 5 月在九种期刊上发表的 57 项关于 COVID-19 与环境之间关系的研究进行批判性分析，填补了这一空白。我们的样本中的大多数研究都发表在《环境科学与技术》杂志上（74%），研究主要使用描述性统计和回归作为研究方法。我们根据对研究的系统内容分析，确定了四个潜在的研究群。这些集群是：（1）COVID-19 和环境退化，（2）COVID-19 和空气污染，（3）COVID-19 和气候/气象因素，（4）COVID-19 和温度。除了对每个集群中的研究进行批判性分析外，我们还提出了研究问题，以指导未来 COVID-19 与环境之间关系的研究。
