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The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic extend to global biodiversity and its conservation. Although short-term beneficial or adverse impacts on biodiversity have been widely discussed, there is less attention to the likely political and economic responses to the crisis and their implications for conservation. Here we describe four possible alternative future policy responses: (1) restoration of the previous economy, (2) removal of obstacles to economic growth, (3) green recovery and (4) transformative economic reconstruction. Each alternative offers opportunities and risks for conservation. They differ in the agents they emphasize to mobilize change (e.g. markets or states) and in the extent to which they prioritize or downplay the protection of nature. We analyse the advantages and disadvantages of these four options from a conservation perspective. We argue that the choice of post-COVID-19 recovery strategy has huge significance for the future of biodiversity, and that conservationists of all persuasions must not shrink from engagement in the debates to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Capitalism, climate change, global unions, green economy, international labor, neoliberalism Keywords: capitalism; climate change; global unions; green economy; international labor; neoliberalism EN capitalism climate change global unions green economy international labor neoliberalism 85 90 6 01/04/22 20220101 NES 220101 Covid-19 has provided a stark reminder that today's world is both scarred by grotesque levels of inequality and populated by billions of vulnerable people. Awash with enormous resources and a well-oiled propaganda apparatus, they have their own narrative for dealing with Covid-19, climate change, and other crises, namely, "The Great Reset" or, its close relative, "Build Back Better."[11] Countering this dominant narrative will be difficult, but it is nevertheless essential. [Extracted from the article]

It is clear that we are facing a tipping point in global politics, climate change and social justice. Much has been trumpeted under the banner of the 'Green New Deal'. Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L McHarg Center at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, describes the history and various approaches encompassed within this ubiquitous epithet and how designers can get involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Miriam Brett, Director of Research and Advocacy at London‐based think tank Common Wealth, believes the Covid‐19 pandemic has exposed numerous inequalities in our societies. Common Wealth engages in projects that seek to replace these inequalities with sustainable, equitable and remodelled economic frameworks on which our cities and landscapes can be rebuilt. Here she describes a recent scheme where Green New Deal policies are implemented in Glasgow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In July 2020, the South Korean government announced a 5-year, post-pandemic plan. This purportedly proactive policy aimed to advance digital and green industries to lay the groundwork for the post-pandemic era. This article examines the South Korean government's early proposal of a post-pandemic policy, titled the Korean New Deal, in order to explore how the pandemic crisis may affect the policymakers' envisioning of the post-crisis society. Moreover, the study examines how this early predictive plan may reveal the ways in which the pandemic is utilized for discursive politics. Drawing on the critical discourse analysis of policy documents and news coverage, this article questions how the "old" language of the developmental state is incorporated into the "new" policy. The study also shows how COVID-19′s impacts and uncertainties are translated into political discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the design and impact on public finances of a global investment plan directed at supporting post-COVID19 reconstruction efforts by investing in climate change mitigation. We analyse current macroeconomic conditions in both developed and emerging economies and, subsequently, simulate various growth scenarios and observe the impact on public debt sustainability of implementing an economic stimulus oriented towards climate change mitigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A global health and economic crisis was created by the spread of Covid-19 across the world during the course of 2020 and into 2021. This Special Issue of the International Review of Applied Economics brings together papers analysing various aspects of this twin crisis. The crisis led to massive intervention by governments, both to tackle the health crisis - through lock-downs; social distancing measures; test, trace and isolate programmes; and to develop and then provide vaccinations - and to offset the economic damage created by the lock-downs, the fall in travel and trade, and so forth. Several of the papers take up the challenge of how we might 'build back better'. The leading expert on organisational studies and organisational behaviour John Child notes that while the Covid-19 pandemic intensified many of the economic and social problems that societies were already facing, the public response to the crisis points to a constructive way forward, including people participating in collective activities to contribute to addressing the common challenge, arguing that "it is timely to widen participation in organisational decision-making as an approach to addressing many of the problems which will continue to be with us post-Covid, and which indeed the pandemic has exacerbated". These further challenges include inequality, and the climate crisis. Both could be tackled through a global Green New Deal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than simply an introduction to the field, therefore, the book highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought key mobilities issues to the fore and underscored the pertinence of this field to contemporary research. Directing our gaze towards the future, the final chapters argue that the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant global mobility disruptions provide an opportunity for a fundamental reconstruction of mobilities regimes in favour of more equitable and low-carbon systems. The spread of novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 in 2020 was followed by swift and extraordinary changes to global mobility, with almost all forms of movement being (re)characterised, literally and figuratively, "as problematic and pathological" (Cresswell, 2021, p. 59). [Extracted from the article]

Many U.K. transportation professionals support the Build Back Better Council and feel that the behavioral changes enforced by the pandemic should be tised to pngire 4* transportation becoilies Illule subldilldbled, & c~ recoysr part of the overall recovery. RESOURCES I inside ite Transportation Impacts of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom r /CIHT magazine ofthe Chartered Institution ofHighways andTransportation in the U. K. This article was produced in collaboration with Transportation Professional, the The Chartered Institution of Highways and United Kingdom (U.K.) Prime Minster Boris Johnson announced in late February 2021 a plan Transportation is the United Kingdom's for easing COVID-19 restrictions in England over the coming months. [Extracted from the article]