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Title: | The future of sustainability in the context of Covid-19. | Authors: | Cawthorn, Donna-Maree. School of Biology and Environmental Sciences |
Keywords: | Adaptive management.;COVID-19.;Emerging disease.;Nationalist isolation.;Totalitarian surveillance.;Wildlife trade.;Zoonosis. | Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | Springer | Abstract: | The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis emanating both from a virus (SARS-CoV-2) and from the drastic actions to contain it. Here, we reflect on the immediate responses of most world powers amid the pandemic chaos: totalitarian surveillance and nationalist isolation. Drawing on published literature, we consider measures such as wildlife-use bans, lockdowns and travel restrictions, along with their reverberations for people, economies and the planet. Our synthesis highlights significant shortfalls of applying command-and-control tactics in emergencies. For one, heavy-handed bans risk enormous unintended consequences and tend to fail if they lack legitimacy or clash with people’s values. Furthermore, reactive and myopic strategies typically view the pandemic as a stand-alone crisis, rather than unravelling the complex interplay of nature-society interactions through which zoonotic diseases originate. A return to adaptive management approaches that recognise root causes and foster socio-ecological resilience will be essential to improve human and planetary health and mitigate future pandemics. | Description: | Please note that only UMP researchers are shown in the metadata. To access the co-authors, please view the full text. | URI: | https://openscholar.ump.ac.za/handle/20.500.12714/338 | DOI: | 10.1007/s13280-020-01430-9 |
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