The Impact of the Wuhan Covid-19 Lockdown on Air Pollution and Health: A Machine Learning and Augmented Synthetic Control Approach [0.03%]
武汉新冠封城对空气污染和健康影响的研究：机器学习和增强合成控制方法
Matthew A Cole,Robert J R Elliott,Bowen Liu
Matthew A Cole
We quantify the impact of the Wuhan Covid-19 lockdown on concentrations of four air pollutants using a two-step approach. First, we use machine learning to remove the confounding effects of weather conditions on pollution concentrations. Se...
The Unintended Impact of Colombia's Covid-19 Lockdown on Forest Fires [0.03%]
哥伦比亚新冠疫情封锁措施对森林火灾的意外影响
Mónica Amador-Jiménez,Naomi Millner,Charles Palmer et al.
Mónica Amador-Jiménez et al.
The covid-19 pandemic led to rapid and large-scale government intervention in economies and societies. A common policy response to covid-19 outbreaks has been the lockdown or quarantine. Designed to slow the spread of the disease, lockdowns...
The Consequences of COVID-19 and Other Disasters for Wildlife and Biodiversity [0.03%]
COVID-19和其他灾害对野生动物和生物多样性的后果
Daniel Rondeau,Brianna Perry,Franque Grimard
Daniel Rondeau
We review the economic channels by which the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent policy responses may affect wildlife and biodiversity. The pandemic is put in the context of more than 5,000 disease outbreaks, natural disasters, recessions and ...
Cross-Country Comparisons of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life [0.03%]
新冠疫情的跨国比较：政策、政治和生命代价
Ben Balmford,James D Annan,Julia C Hargreaves et al.
Ben Balmford et al.
Coronavirus has claimed the lives of over half a million people world-wide and this death toll continues to rise rapidly each day. In the absence of a vaccine, non-clinical preventative measures have been implemented as the principal means ...
Brett H Day
Brett H Day
The COVID-19 outbreak resulted in unprecedented restrictions on citizen's freedom of movement as governments moved to institute lockdowns designed to reduce the spread of the virus. While most out-of-home leisure activities were prohibited,...
CITES and the Zoonotic Disease Content in International Wildlife Trade [0.03%]
《濒临绝种野生动植物国际贸易公约》和国际野生动物贸易中的病毒传染病内容
Stefan Borsky,Hannah Hennighausen,Andrea Leiter et al.
Stefan Borsky et al.
International trade in wildlife is one contributing factor to zoonotic disease risk. Using descriptive statistics, this paper shows that in the last decades, the volume and pattern of internationally traded wildlife has changed considerably...
COVID-19, Systemic Crisis, and Possible Implications for the Wild Meat Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
COVID-19，系统性危机以及对撒哈拉以南非洲野味贸易的可能影响
James McNamara,Elizabeth J Z Robinson,Katharine Abernethy et al.
James McNamara et al.
Wild animals play an integral and complex role in the economies and ecologies of many countries across the globe, including those of West and Central Africa, the focus of this policy perspective. The trade in wild meat, and its role in diet...
Samson Mukanjari,Thomas Sterner
Samson Mukanjari
Should the economic recovery from the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) be green? The current crisis is so severe that we should not take the answer for granted. It requires serious thought and we start by reviewing some arguments f...
The Corona-Pandemic: A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Regional and Global Governance [0.03%]
冠状疫情：区域与全球治理中的博弈论视角
Alejandro Caparrós,Michael Finus
Alejandro Caparrós
We argue that the incentive structure of all individual and coordinated measures across countries to contain the corona-pandemic is that of a weakest-link public good game. We discuss a selection of theoretical and experimental key results ...
Christian Elleby,Ignacio Pérez Domínguez,Marcel Adenauer et al.
Christian Elleby et al.
This paper analyses the impacts on global agricultural markets of the demand shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the first wave of lockdown measures imposed by the governments in the first semester of 2020 to contain it. Specifically,...