COVID-19: Are Cities Entering the era of Disruptive Transformations to Sustainability?
Kareem Buyana, from the the Urban Action Lab at Makerere University, Uganda, shares his thoughts on urban health systems in developing and developed cities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
14.04.2020
A Data Ecosystem to Defeat COVID-19
Bapon Fakhruddin discusses why the COVID-19 pandemic requires thinking and decision making supported by a data ecosystem which looks much further into the future than previous short-term approaches.
10.04.2020
COVID-19 and global dimensions of inequality
“It is high time to reduce the vulnerabilities of migrant workers”, says Amina Maharjan, Senior Specialist in Livelihoods and Migration at ICIMOD, Kathmandu. Amina Maharjan is second up in the Global Research Programme on Inequality’s (GRIP) miniseries of interviews on the current COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the multiple dimensions of inequality.
06.04.2020
What does a country really need to do during a pandemic?
Commentary from Prof Dr Awg Bulgiba Awg Mahmud, Professor of Epidemiology at the Dept of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya, and, Secretary-General of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.
03.04.2020
Tackling Climate Change with COVID-19 Urgency – by ISC Patron, Mary Robinson and ISC President, Daya Reddy
The COVID-19 threat has shown that governments can act swiftly and resolutely in a crisis, and that people are ready to change their behavior for the good of humanity. The world must now urgently adopt the same approach to the existential challenge of climate change.
01.04.2020
Placing scientific knowledge, preparedness and public awareness at the core of disaster risk policy
Knowledge-based advice to governments, preparedness, public awareness, and timely actions are an earnest of success in coping with crises and disasters. A fruitful cooperation between scientists, policymakers and the society at all stages of disaster risk management would contribute to resilience and sustainability, and is vitally important during crises/disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. No political and governmental actions are productive without having scientific knowledge and public awareness raised.
01.04.2020
Building resilience against biological hazards and pandemics: COVID-19 and its implications for the Sendai Framework
2020 has become the year of coping with COVID-19. This year was to be the “super year” for sustainability, a year of strengthening global actions to accelerate the transformations required for achieving the 2030 agenda. We argue that 2020 can and must be a year of both. Thus we call for more utilisation of the health-emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) framework to complement current responses to COVID-19 and the patent risk of similar phenomena in the future.
27.03.2020
Miniseries: COVID-19 and global dimensions of inequality
“We fear that 2020 will be a lost year in global development.”
25.03.2020
COVID-19 Can Help Wealthier Nations Prepare for a Sustainability Transition
While the challenge of getting the coronavirus outbreak under control is surely ominous, it merits recognizing that from a sustainability standpoint we may have a rare window of opportunity.
25.03.2020
