DOI
10.5642/envirolabasia.20200401.02
Abstract
The idea of planetary health as a form of scholarly analysis and scientific investigation has particular relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic and to Asia, where the outbreak of the novel coronavirus was first reported. Over the past three decades, the continent’s rapid urbanization and industrialization have played a significant role in the region’s economic growth, increase in per capita income and the concentration of wealth, and the creation of some of the world’s fast-growing cities. These profound benefits have come with some serious consequences, however, and planetary-health experts have stressed that one of them has been the sharp uptick in zoonotic diseases such COVID-19.
Recommended Citation
Huang, Hao
(2020)
"COVID-19 and the Environment: Reflections on the Pandemic in Asia,"
EnviroLab Asia:
Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/envirolabasia/vol4/iss1/2
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