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dc.contributor.author | Cawthorn, Donna-Maree. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-18T07:35:19Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-18T07:35:19Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://openscholar.ump.ac.za/handle/20.500.12714/338 | - |
dc.description | Please note that only UMP researchers are shown in the metadata. To access the co-authors, please view the full text. | en_US |
dc.description.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. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
dc.relation | Oak Foundation | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment | en_US |
dc.subject | Adaptive management. | en_US |
dc.subject | COVID-19. | en_US |
dc.subject | Emerging disease. | en_US |
dc.subject | Nationalist isolation. | en_US |
dc.subject | Totalitarian surveillance. | en_US |
dc.subject | Wildlife trade. | en_US |
dc.subject | Zoonosis. | en_US |
dc.title | The future of sustainability in the context of Covid-19. | en_US |
dc.type | journal article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s13280-020-01430-9 | - |
dc.contributor.affiliation | School of Biology and Environmental Sciences | en_US |
dc.relation.issn | 1654-7209 | en_US |
dc.description.startpage | 1 | en_US |
dc.description.endpage | 10 | en_US |
dc.relation.grantno | OCAY-19-243 | en_US |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | journal article | - |
crisitem.author.dept | School of Biology and Environmental Sciences | - |
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