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Mc Call T, Lopez Lumbi S, Rinderhagen M, Heming M, Hornberg C, Liebig-Gonglach M. Risk Perception of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Influencing Factors and Implications for Environmental Health Crises. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2023; 20:3363. [PMID: 36834056 PMCID: PMC9964339 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20043363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and climate change are two simultaneously occurring large scale environmental health crises. This provides an opportunity to compare the risk perception of both crises in the population. In particular, whether experiencing the acute pandemic sensitizes people to the risks of ongoing climate change. METHODS Panel participants answered a web-based questionnaire. The risk perception of SARS-CoV-2 and influencing factors were assessed. Differences of risk perception dimensions regarding SARS-CoV-2 and climate change were analyzed as well as associations between dimensions. RESULTS The results show that an economic impact by the pandemic is associated with more dimensions of SARS-CoV-2 risk perception than an experienced health impact. Moreover, dimensions of risk perception of the pandemic and climate change are perceived differently. Furthermore, the affective dimension of pandemic risk perception is significantly associated with all dimensions of climate change risk perception. CONCLUSIONS Emotional-based coping with the risks of SARS-CoV-2 is associated with risk perception of climate change as well as various factors that shape the individuals' risk perception. It is currently necessary and will be increasingly necessary in the future to solve coexisting crises, not selectively, but in a common context within the framework of a social-ecological and economic transformation.
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- Timothy Mc Call
- Medical School OWL, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Medical School OWL, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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Buzzao G, Rizzi F. The role of dynamic capabilities for resilience in pursuing business continuity: an empirical study. TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2023.2174427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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- Giacomo Buzzao
- Department of Economics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Economics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Vehicle Routing Optimization for Pandemic Containment: A Systematic Review on Applications and Solution Approaches. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14042053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has accounted for many deaths. The effective containment of the current COVID-19 epidemic calls for a fast and sustainable delivery strategy to minimize the impact of this crisis. As such, this study aimed to conduct a comprehensive review of research on the vehicle routing problem (VRP) from a sustainable viewpoint during the pandemic and explore viable delivery solutions that may aid in the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a systematic review of the selected articles, four broad themes of pandemic containment measures from the delivery aspect were identified: efficient pharmaceutical delivery strategy, contactless distribution, sustainable waste transportation strategy, and isolated and quarantine vehicle scheduling. Following that, the methodology utilized to execute the containment measures were analyzed, research gaps were hightlighted, and possibilities for future studies were suggested. In summary, the goal of this research is to provide an overview of the literature on the application of VRPs in pandemic control and to assist academics and practitioners in learning more about the performance metrics, models, and solution techniques utilized in pandemic control delivery operations.
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Ben Youssef A, Zeqiri A. Hospitality Industry 4.0 and Climate Change. CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABILITY 2022; 2:1043-1063. [PMID: 35098249 PMCID: PMC8783793 DOI: 10.1007/s43615-021-00141-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This paper investigates under which conditions implementation of Industry 4.0 in the hospitality sector could help to combat climate change. The paper takes the form of a systematic literature review to examine the main pillars of Industry 4.0 in the hospitality industry and discuss how these technologies could help combat climate change. We propose five conditions under which Industry 4.0 could help to combat climate change. First, in the hospitality industry, increased use of Industry 4.0 technologies induces an increase in energy efficiency and a reduction of GHG. Second, increased use of Industry 4.0 technologies induces a reduction in water consumption and an increase in water use efficiency. Third, increased use of Industry 4.0 technologies induces a reduction in food waste. Fourth, increased use of Industry 4.0 technologies can promote Circular Hospitality 4.0. Fifth, increased use of Industry 4.0 technologies helps to reduce transport and travel. Hospitality Industry 4.0 technologies offer new opportunities for enhancing sustainable development and reducing GHG emissions through the use of environmentally friendly approaches to achieve the Paris Agreement objectives.
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- Adel Ben Youssef
- ISEM, GREDEG-CNRS & University Côte d'Azur, 24 Avenue desDiables Bleus, 06300 Nice, France
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- Faculty of Economics, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Str. Agim Ramadani, n.n., 10000 Prishtina, Kosovo
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Fukuda Y, Ando S, Fukuda K. Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0257552. [PMID: 34543315 PMCID: PMC8451997 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Countermeasures against the spread of COVID-19 have become an urgent issue in educational settings, where many group activities are necessary. Educators are key to preventing the spread of COVID-19 in educational settings. Infection prevention behavior requires comprehensive and complex measures such as self-restraint. disinfection care, hand washing, wearing masks and recommendation and implementation of vaccination. Improvement in the knowledge, skills, and preventive actions of educators vis-à-vis COVID-19 could allow for the continued provision of educational services while ensuring safety in educational settings. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the knowledge and preventive actions of educators regarding COVID-19 and vaccination awareness to provide appropriate support for educators. The study used data collected from 1,000 Japanese educators in January 2021 when the third wave of viral infections spread. Online surveys and multivariate linear regression analysis were used to determine age and whether respondents were being cared for by a doctor. We investigated the effects of factors on educators’ willingness to be vaccinated and changes in their behavior. This study found that factors such as age, gender, whether a respondent was under a physician’s care, and health literacy, affected the willingness of educators to receive vaccinations and engage in preventive actions. The study also suggests that the reliability of national government public relations efforts is lower than the reliability of local government public relations and that of information from family physicians, pharmacies, and mass media. It is therefore necessary to reexamine how information is disseminated by the national government and to increase the degree of trust in that information among the public. The findings of the study also revealed the importance of improving the provision of appropriate information and health literacy for the behavior of educators, not only during the initial outbreak, but also during the subsequent period of pandemic life.
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- Yasue Fukuda
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Suzuka University of Medical Science, Suzuka-city, Mie, Japan
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- Department of Information and Computer Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Developing Complexity-Informed COVID-19 Responses to Optimize Community Well-Being: A Systems Thinking Approach. SYSTEMS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/systems9030068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Despite a range of federal and state interventions to slow the spread of COVID-19, the US has seen millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Top-down mandates have been ineffective because the community spread of the pandemic has been influenced by complex local dynamics that have evolved over time. Systems thinking approaches, specifically causal loop diagrams, and leverage points, are important techniques for representing complexity at the local level and identifying responsive systems change opportunities. This commentary presents a causal loop diagram highlighting the progressive effects of prolonged state-level COVID-19 mandates at the community level. We also identify potential system leverage points that address these effects and present an imagined future state causal loop diagram in which these solutions are implemented. Our future system demonstrates the importance of collaborations to enable community-driven, bottom-up approaches to public health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, that are adaptive and responsive to local needs.
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Sustainable Development, COVID-19 and Small Business in Greece: Small Is Not Beautiful. ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/admsci11030090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The aim of this article is s to show that contrary to the common parlance and to the widespread belief that treats small business as “the backbone of the economy”, in the sense of being the prime motor of wealth and prosperity, therefore the underlying logic is what is good for small business will also help government achieves overall economic policy goals, the prevailing dominant idea that formulates and drives the Greek economic policy is quite the opposite. Based on textual analysis, from Greece’s Structural Adjustment Programs, to the various assessment reports, till the latest “Development Plan for the Greek Economy”, we attempt to reveal that the prevailing idea that penetrates the abovementioned texts is that “small is not beautiful”. Specifically, after indicating a policy paradox regarding the limited financial support that Greek small businesses received or expected to receive despite their vital importance to the Greek economy, we expose the “structural impediment” idea. According to the latter the existence of a large share of small business in the Greek economy is being considered as a structural impediment for economic growth and prosperity. The implication is a policy dictum that favours a form of an evolutionary natural selection process, whereby only those establishments successful enough to grow will be able to survive, thus the vast bulk of the remaining small firms will exit the market.
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Dahlke J, Bogner K, Becker M, Schlaile MP, Pyka A, Ebersberger B. Crisis-driven innovation and fundamental human needs: A typological framework of rapid-response COVID-19 innovations. TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 2021; 169:120799. [PMID: 36540548 PMCID: PMC9755532 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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As a microcosm for future challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits increasingly transboundary dynamics, causing interconnected problems across multiple societal systems. To examine the role of innovations as a social mechanism to reconcile these arising challenges, we view the unfolding of the pandemic through the lens of a content analysis of 707 innovation projects that address the fundamental human needs of consumers and businesses. This study proposes a novel procedure to characterize large-scale innovative activities via text mining and employs a theoretical framework for identifying the pressing societal needs amidst crises. Our typology of rapid-response COVID-19 innovations exhibits a diverse set of domains ranging from technological innovations to what may be described as frugal and social innovations. We provide evidence for the growing prevalence of social needs beyond the basic notion of safety during the early months of the crisis. Our contributions show that a structural model of innovation activities and their latent drivers may help policy makers and innovators to move toward achieving a systemic reaction to such crises.
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- Johannes Dahlke
- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Economics (520I), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Economics (520I), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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Dahlke J, Bogner K, Becker M, Schlaile MP, Pyka A, Ebersberger B. Crisis-driven innovation and fundamental human needs: A typological framework of rapid-response COVID-19 innovations. TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 2021. [PMID: 36540548 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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As a microcosm for future challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits increasingly transboundary dynamics, causing interconnected problems across multiple societal systems. To examine the role of innovations as a social mechanism to reconcile these arising challenges, we view the unfolding of the pandemic through the lens of a content analysis of 707 innovation projects that address the fundamental human needs of consumers and businesses. This study proposes a novel procedure to characterize large-scale innovative activities via text mining and employs a theoretical framework for identifying the pressing societal needs amidst crises. Our typology of rapid-response COVID-19 innovations exhibits a diverse set of domains ranging from technological innovations to what may be described as frugal and social innovations. We provide evidence for the growing prevalence of social needs beyond the basic notion of safety during the early months of the crisis. Our contributions show that a structural model of innovation activities and their latent drivers may help policy makers and innovators to move toward achieving a systemic reaction to such crises.
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- Johannes Dahlke
- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Economics (520I), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Economics (520I), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Innovation Management (570F), University of Hohenheim, Schloss Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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Spiering S, Barrera MDV. Testing the quality of transformative science methods: the example of the Human Scale Development approach. SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE 2021; 16:1439-1457. [PMID: 34035864 PMCID: PMC8136104 DOI: 10.1007/s11625-021-00966-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2021] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Scholars and funding bodies alike are increasingly calling for transformative research that delivers socially robust and impact-oriented outcomes. This paper argues that the Human Scale Development approach (HSDA) introduced by Max-Neef and colleagues in Latin America during the 1980s can serve as a method for transformative science (TSc). HSDA is both a theory and a participatory methodology and thus contributes toward fulfilling the objectives of TSc, which are scientific, practical and educational. In this paper, we begin by explicating how the fundamental human needs (FHN) approach of the HSDA can support scholars and practitioners alike in addressing complex sustainability challenges. We then refer to the methodological adaptations to the original proposal that we have previously developed to illustrate how Max-Neef's methodological approach might be further extended and to demonstrate how these changes can strengthen HSDA and make it even more useful for generating knowledge needed in sustainability transformations. To inform and support research that builds on the co-production of knowledge, we test HSDA with regard to TSc quality criteria and show how it adds value to the existing canon of TSc methods. To this end, we develop an analytical framework that can be deployed to assess the quality of TSc methods.
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- Salina Spiering
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH, UFZ, Leipzig, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile, Isla Teja, Valdivia, Chile
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