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Living with Pandemics
Places, People and Policy
9781800373587 Edward Elgar Publishing
Providing an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations, and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.
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Providing an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.
Interdisciplinary chapters written by social policy, geography, planning, policy, sociology and public health experts explore the broader impacts of COVID-19, positioning the pandemic in the context of wider trends and risks including climate change. Chapters highlight the importance of place and local contexts in understanding its impacts in different settings including Europe, Canada, North America, South Korea, South Africa and Lebanon. In doing so, the book develops a pandemic preparedness, responsiveness and recovery research framework and intends to inform post-pandemic policy development and research.
This is an important book for geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, planning and business and management researchers and students, particularly those focusing on crisis management and risk and resilience. With key case studies from across the globe, it will help elucidate key issues for policy makers and practitioners across a range of sectors including strategic management, social policy, public health and the built environment.
Interdisciplinary chapters written by social policy, geography, planning, policy, sociology and public health experts explore the broader impacts of COVID-19, positioning the pandemic in the context of wider trends and risks including climate change. Chapters highlight the importance of place and local contexts in understanding its impacts in different settings including Europe, Canada, North America, South Korea, South Africa and Lebanon. In doing so, the book develops a pandemic preparedness, responsiveness and recovery research framework and intends to inform post-pandemic policy development and research.
This is an important book for geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, planning and business and management researchers and students, particularly those focusing on crisis management and risk and resilience. With key case studies from across the globe, it will help elucidate key issues for policy makers and practitioners across a range of sectors including strategic management, social policy, public health and the built environment.
Critical Acclaim
‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors add what is too often left out: how do we prepare for future pandemics? We already know they will come.’
– Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US
– Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US
Contributors
Contributors: Mina Akhavan, Kira Allmann, Jillian Anable, Lauren Andres, Suzanne Bartington, Megan K. Blake, Frances Brill, John R. Bryson, Paul Cairney, Natàlia Cugueró-Escofet, Andrew Davies, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, Mina Di Marino, Iain Docherty, Katrina du Toit, Aksel Ersoy, Tom Forth, Arianna Giovannini, T. Gonondo, Charles Goode, Vincent Gruis, Steve Gulati, Jin-Tae Hwang, Anna Lavis, Nichola Lowe, Ilaria Mariotti, Greg Marsden, Keith J. Mason, Paul Moawad, Jessica Pykett, Mike Raco, Peter Rautenbach, Ben Rayner, Louise Reardon, Maria Savona, Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Pere Suau-Sanchez, Angus Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Vida Vanchan, Tara Vinodrai, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Holly Westlake
Contents
Contents:
Preface: what’s next? COVID-19 as a planetary inflection point
for places, people, policy and research xxi
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations and
impacts for people, place and policy 2
John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon
PART II PANDEMICS, PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS
AND SOCIETY
2 Human-centered solutions to the digital divide: lessons
from a global pandemic 36
Kira Allmann
3 Living with pandemics in higher education: people, place
and policy 47
Matthew Thomas, Tendayi Gonondo, Peter Rautenbach,
Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Angus Thomas and Holly Westlake
4 Building post-COVID community resilience by moving
beyond emergency food support 59
Megan K. Blake
5 The job–food–health nexus in South African townships
and the impact of COVID-19 69
Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Katrina du Toit
6 Repercussions and impact of COVID-19 pandemic
encampment mechanisms on Lebanese informal tented
settlements along the Lebanese–Syrian borderline 79
Paul Moawad and Lauren Andres
7 COVID-19 and the emergence of a level 2.5 society in
South Korea 91
Jin-Tae Hwang
8 COVID-19, digital transformations and essential services 103
Maria Savona
PART III PANDEMICS, PLACE AND ENVIRONMENT
9 COVID-19 and the climate emergency: lessons in the time
of crisis? 116
Suzanne Bartington
10 The emergence of coworking models in the face of pandemic 129
Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino and Mina Akhavan
11 A refuge from the storm? The English Church during COVID-19 140
Andrew Davies
12 Coronavirus and the digitalisation of planning:
perspectives from practice and academia 149
Charles Goode and Ben Rayner
13 Housing during and after the pandemic: an exploration of
immediate and structural effects of COVID-19 on housing
markets 159
Vincent Gruis and Aksel Ersoy
14 City-building in a context of crisis: the impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic on residential investment in London 166
Frances Brill and Mike Raco
15 ‘Escape to the country’: the implications of coronavirus
upon the English housing crisis 174
Charles Goode
16 Mobility during and after the pandemic 184
Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth
17 Global pandemic disruptions, reconfiguration and
glocalization of production networks 195
Vida Vanchan
18 COVID-19 and the immediate and longer-term impacts
on the retail and hospitality industries: dark stores and
turnover-based rental models 202
John R. Bryson
PART IV PANDEMICS AND POLICY
19 Impact, response and reflection: COVID-19 and health policy 218
Steve Gulati
20 Governance and policy in pandemics: approaches to crisis,
chaos and catastrophe 227
Jessica Pykett and Anna Lavis
21 Reimagining work? COVID-19 and the impacts on
employment in Canada and the United States 237
Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai
22 Evidence-informed COVID-19 policy: what problem was
the UK government trying to solve? 250
Paul Cairney
23 In the eye of the storm: English local government and the
COVID-19 crisis 261
Arianna Giovannini
24 COVID-19 and the impacts on commercial aviation: a dead stop? 272
Pere Suau-Sanchez, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Natàlia
Cugueró-Escofet and Keith J. Mason
PART V CONCLUSION
25 The preparedness, responsiveness and recovery triality:
a pandemic research and policy framework 286
John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise
Reardon
Index
Preface: what’s next? COVID-19 as a planetary inflection point
for places, people, policy and research xxi
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations and
impacts for people, place and policy 2
John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon
PART II PANDEMICS, PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS
AND SOCIETY
2 Human-centered solutions to the digital divide: lessons
from a global pandemic 36
Kira Allmann
3 Living with pandemics in higher education: people, place
and policy 47
Matthew Thomas, Tendayi Gonondo, Peter Rautenbach,
Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Angus Thomas and Holly Westlake
4 Building post-COVID community resilience by moving
beyond emergency food support 59
Megan K. Blake
5 The job–food–health nexus in South African townships
and the impact of COVID-19 69
Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Katrina du Toit
6 Repercussions and impact of COVID-19 pandemic
encampment mechanisms on Lebanese informal tented
settlements along the Lebanese–Syrian borderline 79
Paul Moawad and Lauren Andres
7 COVID-19 and the emergence of a level 2.5 society in
South Korea 91
Jin-Tae Hwang
8 COVID-19, digital transformations and essential services 103
Maria Savona
PART III PANDEMICS, PLACE AND ENVIRONMENT
9 COVID-19 and the climate emergency: lessons in the time
of crisis? 116
Suzanne Bartington
10 The emergence of coworking models in the face of pandemic 129
Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino and Mina Akhavan
11 A refuge from the storm? The English Church during COVID-19 140
Andrew Davies
12 Coronavirus and the digitalisation of planning:
perspectives from practice and academia 149
Charles Goode and Ben Rayner
13 Housing during and after the pandemic: an exploration of
immediate and structural effects of COVID-19 on housing
markets 159
Vincent Gruis and Aksel Ersoy
14 City-building in a context of crisis: the impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic on residential investment in London 166
Frances Brill and Mike Raco
15 ‘Escape to the country’: the implications of coronavirus
upon the English housing crisis 174
Charles Goode
16 Mobility during and after the pandemic 184
Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth
17 Global pandemic disruptions, reconfiguration and
glocalization of production networks 195
Vida Vanchan
18 COVID-19 and the immediate and longer-term impacts
on the retail and hospitality industries: dark stores and
turnover-based rental models 202
John R. Bryson
PART IV PANDEMICS AND POLICY
19 Impact, response and reflection: COVID-19 and health policy 218
Steve Gulati
20 Governance and policy in pandemics: approaches to crisis,
chaos and catastrophe 227
Jessica Pykett and Anna Lavis
21 Reimagining work? COVID-19 and the impacts on
employment in Canada and the United States 237
Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai
22 Evidence-informed COVID-19 policy: what problem was
the UK government trying to solve? 250
Paul Cairney
23 In the eye of the storm: English local government and the
COVID-19 crisis 261
Arianna Giovannini
24 COVID-19 and the impacts on commercial aviation: a dead stop? 272
Pere Suau-Sanchez, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Natàlia
Cugueró-Escofet and Keith J. Mason
PART V CONCLUSION
25 The preparedness, responsiveness and recovery triality:
a pandemic research and policy framework 286
John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise
Reardon
Index
