Global shocks, cascading disruptions, and (re-)connections : viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as concurrent natural experiments to understand land system dynamics
Piquer-Rodríguez, María (Freie Universität Berlin. Institute of Geographical Sciences)
Friis, Cecilie (University of Copenhagen. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management)
Andriatsitohaina, R. Ntsiva N. (University of Antananarivo. Department of Forestry and Environment)
Boillat, Sébastien (University of Neuchâtel. Institute of Biology)
Roig-Boixeda, Paula (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Cortinovis, Chiara (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Department of Geography)
Geneletti, Davide (University of Trento. Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering)
Ibarrola-Rivas, Maria-Jose (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Instituto de Geografía)
Kelley, Lisa C. (University of Colorado. Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences)
Llopis, Jorge C. (University of Bern. Centre for Development and Environment)
Mack, Elizabeth A. (Michigan State University. Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences)
Nanni, Ana Sofía (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional)
Zaehringer, Julie Gwendolin (University of Bern. Institute of Geography)
Henebry, Geoffrey M. (Michigan State University. Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences)

Data:	2023
Resum:	Context: For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted human well-being and livelihoods, communities, and economies in myriad ways with consequences for social-ecological systems across the planet. The pandemic represents a global shock in multiple dimensions that has already, and is likely to continue to have, far-reaching effects on land systems and on those depending on them for their livelihoods. Objectives: We focus on the observed effects of the pandemic on landscapes and people composing diverse land systems across the globe. Methods: We highlight the interrelated impacts of the pandemic shock on the economic, health, and mobility dimensions of land systems using six vignettes from different land systems on four continents, analyzed through the lens of socio-ecological resilience and the telecoupling framework. We present preliminary comparative insights gathered through interviews, surveys, key informants, and authors' observations and propose new research avenues for land system scientists. Results: The pandemic's effects have been unevenly distributed, context-specific, and dependent on the multiple connections that link land systems across the globe. Conclusions: We argue that the pandemic presents concurrent "natural experiments" that can advance our understanding of the intricate ways in which global shocks produce direct, indirect, and spillover effects on local and regional landscapes and land systems. These propagating shock effects disrupt existing connections, forge new connections, and re-establish former connections between peoples, landscapes, and land systems.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Socio-ecological land systems ; Resilience ; Telecoupling ; Mobility ; Governance ; Conservation
Publicat a:	Landscape Ecology, Vol. 38, Issue 5 (May 2023) , p. 1147-1161, ISSN 1572-9761

DOI: 10.1007/s10980-023-01604-2
PMID: 37051136

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