Human Mobility and Sustainability in Time of Pandemic
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 7266
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has stopped mobility globally on an unprecedented scale. Since March 2020, the population of the world has been under various forms of lockdown to contain the spread of the virus, affecting human mobility. Governments around the world have introduced measures to flatten the curve of infections, including travel restrictions, border closures, the suspension of labor migration, and the slowing of mobility and assistance to immigrants. This is particularly hard for millions of people on the move — such as refugees who are forced to flee their homes from violence or disaster, or migrants and citizens on the move in precarious situations. While the COVID-19 virus knows no borders, the (im)mobility impacts of the pandemic have highlighted the need for a more sustainable society.
Due to its recentness, sustainability and mobility researchers have only started to investigate the implications of this crisis for human mobility. However, COVID-19 has given us the perfect opportunity to open new avenues of research and move forward by adopting a more sustainable human mobility. This Special Issue entitled “Human Mobility and Sustainability in the Time of a Pandemic” aims to provide new quantitative and qualitative analysis approaches that link new human mobility to the sustainability process in which global society is immersed.
We propose to cover a broad spectrum of original research contributions that intertwine human mobility and sustainability: the pandemic’s impact on refugees’ sustainable inclusion; economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19; mobility behavior of EU citizens in the time of the pandemic; mobility and sustainable health systems; resilience and sustainability; transient mobility and sustainable agriculture; COVID-19 and public transport; the reconstruction of a sustainable tourism infrastructure that facilitates human mobility; social distance and impact on sustainability; inequality in mobility; sustainable borders; social distance and contribution of migrants to a sustainable economy; new forms of sustainable (in) mobility; digitalization of work; and other (im)mobility and sustainability.
We invite contributions on transformative mobility and sustainable development in the time of a pandemic which help us to understand more and better the changes that today’s society undergoes as a consequence of the COVID-19 crisis.
Dr. Silvia Marcu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable human mobility
- borders and sustainability in the times of a pandemic
- refugees, immigrants, mobile citizens
- inclusion
- sustainable mobility policies
- sustainable tourism in times of COVID19, COVID, human movement, and discrimination
- mobility, social distance and sustainability
- human mobility and sustainable transport
- COVID19 as an opportunity for a sustainable tourism
