Lou, B and Barbieri, DM and Passavanti, M and Hui, C and Gupta, A and Hoff, I and Lessa, DA and Sikka, G and Chang, K and Fang, K and Lam, L and Maharaj, B and Ghasemi, N and Qiao, Y and Adomako, S and Foroutan Mirhosseini, A and Naik, B and Banerjee, A and Wang, F and Tucker, A and Liu, Z and Wijayaratna, K and Naseri, S and Yu, L and Chen, H and Shu, B and Goswami, S and Peprah, P and Hessami, A and Abbas, M and Agarwal, N (2022) Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Ambio, 51 (3). pp. 531-545.
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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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Ambio |
| Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Keywords: | air quality; atmospheric pollution; COVID-19; perception; pollutant removal, Africa; Australia; Brazil; China; Ghana; India; Iran; Italy; Norway; South Africa; United States, adverse event; air pollutant; air pollution; human; pandemic; particulate matter; perception, Air Pollutants; Air Pollution; COVID-19; Humans; Pandemics; Particulate Matter; Perception; SARS-CoV-2 |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2022 11:35 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2022 11:35 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/73797 |
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