Global shocks, cascading disruptions, and (re-) connections: viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as concurrent natural experiments to understand land system dynamics

M Piquer-Rodríguez, C Friis, RNN Andriatsitohaina… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted human well-being
and livelihoods, communities, and economies in myriad ways with consequences for social …

COVID-19 pandemic and agroecosystem resilience: Early insights for building better futures

LA Duguma, M van Noordwijk, PA Minang, K Muthee - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The way the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted human lives and livelihoods constituted a stress
test for agroecosystems in developing countries, as part of rural–urban systems and the …

Social–ecological systems approaches are essential for understanding and responding to the complex impacts of COVID-19 on people and the environment

AN Kadykalo, C Beaudoin… - PLOS Sustainability …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is dramatically impacting planetary
and human societal systems that are inseparably linked. Zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 …

Pandemics and landscape ecology in a post-COVID world

YF Wiersma - Landscape Ecology, 2024 - Springer
It is now nearly 5 years since the COVID-19 virus emerged and spread across the world,
giving rise to the first global pandemic in more than a century. On May 4, 2023, the World …

The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System

NS Diffenbaugh, CB Field, EA Appel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Restrictions to reduce human interaction have helped to avoid greater suffering and death
from the COVID-19 pandemic, but have also created socioeconomic hardship. This …

Pandemics and the future of human-landscape interactions

A Chin, GL Simon, P Anthamatten, KC Kelsey… - Anthropocene, 2020 - Elsevier
Pandemics have accelerated in frequency in recent decades, with COVID-19 the latest to
join the list. Emerging in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, the virus has spread quickly through the …

Contributions of place-based social-ecological research to address global sustainability challenges

B Martín-López, P Balvanera, R Manson… - Global …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Humanity depends on nature for life support, but human activities are changing ecosystems
around the world in profound ways (Díaz et al., 2019). In parallel, this enterprise has …

The ethics of isolation, the spread of pandemics, and landscape ecology

JC Azevedo, S Luque, C Dobbs, G Sanesi… - Landscape …, 2020 - Springer
The debate around the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has raised multiple and incompletely
answered questions regarding how zoonoses are transmitted from wild populations to …

Commentary: resilience and social-ecological systems: a handful of frontiers

C Folke, LJ Haider, SJ Lade… - Global …, 2021 - researchportalplus.anu.edu.au
Fifteen years have passed since the publication in Global Environmental Change of the
article Resilience: the emergence of a perspective of social-ecological systems analyses …

Long‐term ecological research and the COVID‐19 anthropause: A window to understanding social–ecological disturbance

EE Gaiser, JS Kominoski, DM McKnight, CA Bahlai… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The period of disrupted human activity caused by the COVID‐19 pandemic, coined the
“anthropause,” altered the nature of interactions between humans and ecosystems. It is …