TY - JOUR
T1 - The COVID-19 lockdowns
T2 - a window into the Earth System
AU - Diffenbaugh, Noah S.
AU - Field, Christopher B.
AU - Appel, Eric A.
AU - Azevedo, Ines L.
AU - Baldocchi, Dennis D.
AU - Burke, Marshall
AU - Burney, Jennifer A.
AU - Ciais, Philippe
AU - Davis, Steven J.
AU - Fiore, Arlene M.
AU - Fletcher, Sarah M.
AU - Hertel, Thomas W.
AU - Horton, Daniel E.
AU - Hsiang, Solomon M.
AU - Jackson, Robert B.
AU - Jin, Xiaomeng
AU - Levi, Margaret
AU - Lobell, David B.
AU - McKinley, Galen A.
AU - Moore, Frances C.
AU - Montgomery, Anastasia
AU - Nadeau, Kari C.
AU - Pataki, Diane E.
AU - Randerson, James T.
AU - Reichstein, Markus
AU - Schnell, Jordan L.
AU - Seneviratne, Sonia I.
AU - Singh, Deepti
AU - Steiner, Allison L.
AU - Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle
N1 - Funding Information:
This article grew from discussions initiated in the Uncommon Dialogue programme of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. The authors acknowledge support from Stanford University. K.C.N. acknowledges financial support from NIEHS R01 and Sean N. Parker Center at Stanford. G.A.M. acknowledges support from NSF OCE-1948624. T.W.H. acknowledges support from USDA-NIFA 2019-67023-29679 and Hatch 1003642. D.E.H., A.M. and J.L.S. acknowledge support from the Ubben Program for Climate and Carbon Science at the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern. P.C. acknoweldges support from the European Research Council Synergy grant SyG-2013-610028 IMBALANCE-P and the ANR CLAND Convergence Institute.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - 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 disruption is unprecedented in the modern era of global observing networks, pervasive sensing and large-scale tracking of human mobility and behaviour, creating a unique test bed for understanding the Earth System. In this Perspective, we hypothesize the immediate and long-term Earth System responses to COVID-19 along two multidisciplinary cascades: energy, emissions, climate and air quality; and poverty, globalization, food and biodiversity. While short-term impacts are dominated by direct effects arising from reduced human activity, longer-lasting impacts are likely to result from cascading effects of the economic recession on global poverty, green investment and human behaviour. These impacts offer the opportunity for novel insight, particularly with the careful deployment of targeted data collection, coordinated model experiments and solution-oriented randomized controlled trials, during and after the pandemic.
AB - 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 disruption is unprecedented in the modern era of global observing networks, pervasive sensing and large-scale tracking of human mobility and behaviour, creating a unique test bed for understanding the Earth System. In this Perspective, we hypothesize the immediate and long-term Earth System responses to COVID-19 along two multidisciplinary cascades: energy, emissions, climate and air quality; and poverty, globalization, food and biodiversity. While short-term impacts are dominated by direct effects arising from reduced human activity, longer-lasting impacts are likely to result from cascading effects of the economic recession on global poverty, green investment and human behaviour. These impacts offer the opportunity for novel insight, particularly with the careful deployment of targeted data collection, coordinated model experiments and solution-oriented randomized controlled trials, during and after the pandemic.
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U2 - 10.1038/s43017-020-0079-1
DO - 10.1038/s43017-020-0079-1
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85104997314
SN - 2662-138X
VL - 1
SP - 470
EP - 481
JO - Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
JF - Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
IS - 9
ER -
