Effects of the built environment and human factors on the spread of COVID-19: A systematic literature review

M Alidadi, A Sharifi - Science of the total environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Soon after its emergence, COVID-19 became a global problem. While different types of
vaccines and treatments are now available, still non-pharmacological policies play a critical …

[HTML][HTML] Nature's contributions in coping with a pandemic in the 21st century: A narrative review of evidence during COVID-19

SM Labib, MHEM Browning, A Rigolon… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
While COVID-19 lockdowns have slowed coronavirus transmission, such structural
measures also have unintended consequences on mental and physical health. Growing …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's mobility: A longitudinal study of the US from March to September of 2020

J Kim, MP Kwan - Journal of transport geography, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines changes in people's mobility over a 7-month period (from March 1st to
September 30th, 2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US using longitudinal models …

A review of GIS methodologies to analyze the dynamics of COVID‐19 in the second half of 2020

I Franch‐Pardo, MR Desjardins… - Transactions in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 has infected over 163 million people and has resulted in over 3.9 million deaths.
Regarding the tools and strategies to research the ongoing pandemic, spatial analysis has …

Identifying the space-time patterns of COVID-19 risk and their associations with different built environment features in Hong Kong

Z Kan, MP Kwan, MS Wong, J Huang, D Liu - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Identifying the space-time patterns of areas with a higher risk of transmission and the
associated built environment and demographic characteristics during the COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] The stationarity bias in research on the environmental determinants of health

MP Kwan - Health & Place, 2021 - Elsevier
An implicit assumption often made in research on the environmental determinants of health
is that the relationships between environmental factors and their health effects are stable …

Geographies of infections: Built environment and COVID-19 pandemic in metropolitan Melbourne

E Gaisie, NY Oppong-Yeboah, PB Cobbinah - Sustainable cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper uses spatial statistical techniques to reflect on geographies of COVID-19
infections in metropolitan Melbourne. We argue that the evolution of the COVID-19 …

The uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) in measuring people's exposure to green space using the integrated 3S approach

Y Liu, MP Kwan, C Yu - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023 - Elsevier
The “mobility turn” in environmental health studies promoted the integrated 3S (GIS, GPS,
and remote sensing) approach in the study of urban residents' exposure to green space and …

Compact development policy and urban resilience: a critical review

A Dehghani, M Alidadi, A Sharifi - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sustainable development and urban resilience are dominant urban planning paradigms that
have become buzzwords in urban planning and policy domains over the past 2–3 decades …

[HTML][HTML] Compact cities and the Covid-19 pandemic: systematic review of the associations between transmission of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses and …

X Zhang, Z Sun, T Ashcroft, M Dozier, K Ostrishko… - Health & place, 2022 - Elsevier
Living in compact neighbourhoods that are walkable, well connected, with accessible green
space can benefit physical and mental health. However, the pandemic raises concern up to …