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Environmental conditions and human activity nexus. The case of Northern Italy during COVID-19 lockdown

2020/10/15 by Sebastian Raimondo, Raimondo, Sebastian, Barbara Benigni +3
Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Air Quality and Health Impacts #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #COVID-19 impact on air quality #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2010.07721

openalex publication_date 2020/10/15 · openalex created_date 2020/10/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

During COVID-19, draconian countermeasures forbidding non-essential human activities have been adopted worldwide, providing an unprecedented setup for testing sustainability policies. We unravel causal relationships among 16 environmental conditions and human activity variables and argue that, despite a measurable decrease in NO2 concentration due to human activities, locking down a region is insufficient to significantly reduce emissions. Policy strategies more effective than lockdowns must be considered for pollution control and climate change mitigation.

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