Understanding China's wildlife markets: Trade and tradition in an age of pandemic [0.03%]
了解中国的野生物贸易市场：大流行时代的贸易与传统
Annah Zhu,George Zhu
Annah Zhu
Environmentalists have long been concerned about the rate at which China is consuming and trading in threatened and endangered wildlife. The recent COVID-19 global pandemic has made wildlife consumption an issue that concerns everyone aroun...
Psychological stress responses to COVID-19 and adaptive strategies in China [0.03%]
COVID-19在中国引起的心理压力反应及应对策略
Mingke Song
Mingke Song
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) developed into a pandemic on March 11. COVID-19 not only brought life crisis, but also incurred psychological stress: tension, anxiety, fear and despair among affected populations. How to help p...
Sensemaking and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A complex adaptive systems perspective on policy decision-making [0.03%]
新冠疫情期间的意义构建与学习：政策决策的复杂适应系统视角
Federica Angeli,Andrea Montefusco
Federica Angeli
Governments worldwide are under enormous pressure to effectively and promptly address the increasingly complex crisis presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. To understand the difficulties inherent to policymakers' sensemaking and learning proc...
Digital contact-tracing and pandemics: Institutional and technological preparedness in Africa [0.03%]
数字接触者追踪和疫情：非洲的制度和技术准备情况
Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun,Ziad Elsahn,Karla Simone Prime et al.
Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun et al.
Several countries in Africa have either deployed or considering using digital contact-tracing (DCT) as part of their Covid-19 containment strategy, amidst calls for the use of technology to improve the efficiency of traditional contact-trac...
Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19 [0.03%]
公平既是手段也是目的：从COVID-19中为构建有韧性的粮食系统吸取的教训
Susanna Klassen,Sophia Murphy
Susanna Klassen
Food systems are important sites of economic stress, political response and adaptation. Access to food is also an important marker of how well a society distributes its wealth, reflecting the state of political accountability, economic redi...
Compounding crises of social reproduction: Microfinance, over-indebtedness and the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
社会再生产的累积危机：微型金融、过度负债和COVID-19大流行病
Katherine Brickell,Fiorella Picchioni,Nithya Natarajan et al.
Katherine Brickell et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit at a time when microfinance is at its historical peak, with an estimated 139 million microfinance customers globally. Cambodia's microfinance sector is one of the fastest growing, and like others in the Global ...
Distress migration and employment in indigenous Odisha, India: Evidence from migrant-sending households [0.03%]
印度奥里萨邦土著地区的困境移民和就业问题研究：来自移民家庭的证据
Ruchira Bhattamishra
Ruchira Bhattamishra
We convey responses from migrant-sending households in western Odisha from interviews on migration conducted during the lockdown. The majority of migrants are indigenous (referred to as Scheduled Tribes or STs in India), come from very poor...
Isha Ray
Isha Ray
COVID-19 is a disease with no proven pharmaceutical intervention and no proven vaccine. In such circumstances, prevention is all we have. The role of handwashing in the prevention of communicable diseases has been known for over a century, ...
Edward B Barbier,Joanne C Burgess
Edward B Barbier
Developing countries are highly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic, in part due to the lack of international support for ensuring progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet the mounting financial burden faced by all ...
Bubble in, bubble out: Lessons for the COVID-19 recovery and future crises from the Pacific [0.03%]
进来的是泡沫，出去的也是泡沫：来自太平洋地区的经验对新冠疫情后复苏及未来危机应对的启示
Ryan B Edwards
Ryan B Edwards
This note presents three important facts on the COVID-19 pandemic and 22 developing countries, namely those in the Pacific. First, social protection systems are less common in the Pacific than in the rest of the world, meaning the region is...