The COVID-19 Pandemic: Are There Any Impacts on Sustainability?

Halima Begum, A. S. A. Ferdous Alam, Walter Leal Filho, Abd Hair Awang and Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani
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Halima Begum: School of Economics, Finance, and Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia UUM, Sintok 06010, Malaysia
A. S. A. Ferdous Alam: School of International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia UUM, Sintok 06010, Malaysia
Walter Leal Filho: Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management”, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Ulmenliet 20, 21033 Hamburg, Germany
Abd Hair Awang: Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia UKM, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani: School of International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia UUM, Sintok 06010, Malaysia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: This paper sets out to explain and describe the potential ways to control COVID-19?s impact on the environment and what controllable strategies and anticipations emerge from rethinking sustainable production. The rapid and devastating spread of this disease has made millions of people throughout the world cover themselves, wear gloves, and use hand sanitizers and other medical applications. However, it means that a huge amount of clinical waste is being dumped into landfills or the oceans, and such activity may simply worsen the infection’s transmission and the sustainability of the environment, the socio-economy, and sustainable productions. This disease has greatly changed the way people live and has caused considerable occupational job losses and misfortunes, sending sustainable businesses and other organizations to the wall. Virtually every country is trying to stop the infection transmission by testing patients and isolating people, but the environmental effects of the pandemic and sustainable business have not previously been analyzed. The study suggests that the current options for sustainable production must be measured and also further researched.

Keywords: coronavirus; COVID-19; SARS; worldwide health; sustainability; environment; socioeconomic; sustainable production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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