TY - JOUR
T1 - SARS-CoV-2 emergence and diffusion
T2 - a new disease manifesting human–environment interactions and a global geography of health
AU - Vanwambeke, Sophie O.
AU - Linard, Catherine
AU - Gilbert, Marius
AU - Dellicour, Simon
N1 - Funding Information:
SD and MG are supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS, Belgium).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19, is sweeping through the world, disrupting human activities everywhere. The consequences of this on-going event on societies are yet to be fully understood. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 illustrates how human–environment interaction should be framing research on pathogen spillover. Furthermore, the geography of human contacts at various scales in our globalized and urbanized world affects its diffusion. Both elements plead for a robust backbone of geography of health, including land use, to understanding disease emergence and diffusion.
AB - SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19, is sweeping through the world, disrupting human activities everywhere. The consequences of this on-going event on societies are yet to be fully understood. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 illustrates how human–environment interaction should be framing research on pathogen spillover. Furthermore, the geography of human contacts at various scales in our globalized and urbanized world affects its diffusion. Both elements plead for a robust backbone of geography of health, including land use, to understanding disease emergence and diffusion.
KW - virus spillovers
KW - Infectious diseases
KW - human-environment interactions
KW - geography of health
KW - land use
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095726852&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.10.011
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.10.011
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85095726852
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 46
SP - 43
EP - 45
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -
