- Title
- Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Creator
- Lou, Baowen; Barbieri, Diego; Passavanti, Marco; Hui, Cang; Gupta, Akshay; Hoff, Inge; Lessa, Daniela; Sikka, Gaurav; Chang, Kevin; Fang, Kevin; Lam, Louisa; Maharaj, Brij; Ghasemi, Navid; Qiao, Yaning; Adomako, Solomon; Foroutan Mirhosseini, Ali; Naik, Bhaven; Banerjee, Arunabha; Wang, Fusong; Tucker, Andrew; Liu, Zhuangzhuanga; Wijayaratna, Kasunt; Naseri, Sahra; Yu, Lei; Chen, Hao; Shu, Benan; Goswami, Shubham; Peprah, Prince; Hessami, Amir; Abbas, Montasir; Agarwal, Nithin
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/184752
- Identifier
- vital:16572
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01574-2
- Identifier
- ISBN:0044-7447 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- As largely documented in the literature, the stark restrictions enforced worldwide in 2020 to curb the COVID-19 pandemic also curtailed the production of air pollutants to some extent. This study investigates the perception of the air pollution as assessed by individuals located in ten countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the USA. The perceptions towards air quality were evaluated by employing an online survey administered in May 2020. Participants (N = 9394) in the ten countries expressed their opinions according to a Likert-scale response. A reduction in pollutant concentration was clearly perceived, albeit to a different extent, by all populations. The survey participants located in India and Italy perceived the largest drop in the air pollution concentration; conversely, the smallest variation was perceived among Chinese and Norwegian respondents. Among all the demographic indicators considered, only gender proved to be statistically significant. © 2021, The Author(s).
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
- Relation
- Ambio Vol. 51, no. 3 (2022), p. 531-545
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright @ The Author(s) 2021
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary; Air quality; COVID-19 pandemic; Environmental pollution; Pollution perception; Psychometric perception
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Open access funding provided by NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology (incl St. Olavs Hospital -Trondheim University Hospital).
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