Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human-nature interactions: Pathways, evidence and implications.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the global response have dramatically changed people's lifestyles in much of the world. These major changes, as well as the associated changes in impacts on the environment, can alter the dynamics of the direct interactions between humans and nature (hereafter human-nature interactions) far beyond those concerned with animals as sources of novel human coronavirus infections. There may be a variety of consequences for both people and nature.Here, we suggest a conceptual framework for understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect the dynamics of human-nature interactions. This highlights three different, but not mutually exclusive, pathways: changes in (a) opportunity, (b) capability and (c) motivation.Through this framework

SUBMITTER: Soga M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8251160 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature