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Effect of lockdown on activities of daily living in the built environment and wellbeing. 封锁对建筑环境中日常生活活动和健康的影响。
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000017
Sudhir Kumar Pasala, Lakshmi Gumpeny, Madhu Kosuri, Snehalatha Tippana, Gumpeny R Sridhar
{"title":"Effect of lockdown on activities of daily living in the built environment and wellbeing.","authors":"Sudhir Kumar Pasala,&nbsp;Lakshmi Gumpeny,&nbsp;Madhu Kosuri,&nbsp;Snehalatha Tippana,&nbsp;Gumpeny R Sridhar","doi":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In an effort to arrest the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, a nationwide lockdown was declared in India in March 2020. To assess how personal built environments affected the citizens in the first few weeks, an explorative online survey was conducted, eliciting responses about work habits before the lockdown, psychological wellbeing, time spent in various activities, characteristics of those who worked from home, and food and sleep patterns. We received 121 (76 male and 45 female) responses with an average age of 35.5 years [max: 70 years, min: 18 years, standard deviation (SD): 12.9 years]. The major difference caused by the lockdown was a reduction in the time taken and distance travelled of the commute to workplaces, which was an average of 30 minutes and 9.5 km, respectively. In terms of diet, subjects who were vegetarian did not experience any difference, unlike those who were non-vegetarians (<i>p</i> < 0.05). The results show an association of the dependent variable of 'feeling in general' with predictor variables of 'energy, pep, vitality' and 'feel healthy to work' during the pandemic, whereas the predictor variables of 'energy, pep, vitality', 'happy and satisfied personal life', 'feel healthy to work' show an association with the dependent variable of 'feeling in general' before the lockdown with a significance of <i>p</i> < 0.02 and R<sup>2</sup> = 0.51 and R<sup>2</sup> = 0.60, respectively. Among those who worked from home in constrained environments, people found spaces and seemed to adapt reasonably well to the built environment with employees showing a preference for working from bedrooms and students for working from 'sit-out' (outside) spaces (<i>p</i> < 0.05). There was no change in the quality or quantity of sleep during the lockdown. This study in the early weeks of the lockdown documents the way in which individuals lived through it in terms of the built environment at home.</p>","PeriodicalId":75271,"journal":{"name":"UCL open environment","volume":"3 ","pages":"e017"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10171407/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9525570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Synergies and trade-offs between sanitation and the sustainable development goals. 环境卫生与可持续发展目标之间的协同作用和权衡。
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000016
Priti Parikh, Loan Diep, Pascale Hofmann, Julia Tomei, Luiza C Campos, Tse-Hui Teh, Yacob Mulugetta, Ben Milligan, Monica Lakhanpaul
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引用次数: 0
Community responses to climate change: Editorial call for submissions to UCL Open: Environment Special Series. 社区对气候变化的反应:伦敦大学学院开放:环境特别系列社论征集。
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000028
Carla-Leanne Washbourne, Sarah Bell, Dan Osborn
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引用次数: 3
How did the 'state of emergency' declaration in Japan due to the COVID-19 pandemic affect the acoustic environment in a rather quiet residential area? 日本因 COVID-19 大流行而宣布进入 "紧急状态",这对宁静住宅区的声学环境有何影响?
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2020-08-12 eCollection Date: 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000009
Kimihiro Sakagami
{"title":"How did the 'state of emergency' declaration in Japan due to the COVID-19 pandemic affect the acoustic environment in a rather quiet residential area?","authors":"Kimihiro Sakagami","doi":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000009","DOIUrl":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic caused lockdowns in many countries worldwide. Acousticians have made surveys to monitor how cities became quieter under the lockdown, mainly in central areas in cities. However, there have been few studies on the changes in the acoustic environment due to the pandemic in the usually quieter residential areas. It may be expected to be different from the effect in 'originally noisy' areas. Also, the effect could be different in Japan, because the 'state of emergency' declaration there was different to lockdowns elsewhere. Considering these circumstances, this article reports the results of noise monitoring and makes some observations on the acoustic environment in residential areas far from city centres, to provide an example of how the acoustic environment was affected by the state of emergency declaration due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The results showed that the reduction of noise levels was somewhat less than that reported in large cities. Also, comparing the results after the cancellation of the state of emergency, the noise level increased again. However, observations of noise sources imply that a possible change in human behaviour may have also affected the acoustic environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":75271,"journal":{"name":"UCL open environment","volume":"2 ","pages":"e009"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208345/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9525607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Synergies and trade-offs between sanitation and the sustainable development goals 环境卫生与可持续发展目标之间的协同作用和权衡
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2020-08-06 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/000054.v1
P. Parikh, L. Diep, P. Hofmann, J. Tomei, L. Campos, T. Teh, Y. Mulugetta, Ben M. Milligan, M. Lakhanpaul
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引用次数: 15
Insights into the Cenozoic geology of North Beirut (harbour area): biostratigraphy, sedimentology and structural history. 北贝鲁特(港区)新生代地质:生物地层学、沉积学和构造史。
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000004
Germaine Noujaim Clark, Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel
{"title":"Insights into the Cenozoic geology of North Beirut (harbour area): biostratigraphy, sedimentology and structural history.","authors":"Germaine Noujaim Clark,&nbsp;Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel","doi":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The biostratigraphy and sedimentology of the outcrops and bedrock recently exposed in archaeological excavations around the harbour area of Beirut (~5 km²) unlock the geological and structural history of that area, which in turn are key to understanding the hydrocarbon and hydrogeological potential of the region. A key location (Site 2) of a studied outcrop section and newly uncovered bedrock is on the northern foothill cliff of East Beirut (Achrafieh). The outcrop section of carbonates is of Eocene beds overlain by conformable Miocene beds. The excavation of the slope bordering the outcrop uncovered a bedrock section of an early Pliocene shoreline of carbonate/siliciclastic sands at its base and topped by a beach-rock structure. The early Pliocene age of the shoreline section is dated by an assemblage of planktonic foraminifera that includes <i>Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens</i>, <i>Sphaeroidinella dehiscens</i> and <i>Orbulina universa</i>. The Eocene carbonates of Site 2 extend the coverage of the previously reported Eocene outcrops in the harbour area. They form a parasequence of thin-bedded, chalky white limestones that includes the youngest fossil fish deposits in Lebanon (<i>Bregmaceros filamentosus</i>). The deposits are dated as early Priabonian by their association with the planktonic foraminiferal assemblage of <i>Porticulasphaera tropicalis</i>, <i>Globigerinatheka barri</i>, <i>Dentoglobigerina venezuelana</i>, <i>Globigerina praebulloides</i>, <i>Turborotalia centralis</i> and <i>Borelis</i> sp. The Middle Miocene carbonates that conformably overlie the early Priabonian, parasequence include a planktonic foraminiferal assemblage of <i>Globigerinoides trilobus</i>, <i>Orbulina universa</i> and <i>Borelis melo</i>. Elsewhere, in the harbour area, the preserved Eocene limestones are also overlain by conformable Miocene carbonate parasequences of Langhian-Serravallian age. Younger argillaceous limestone beds of the Mio/Pliocene age occur in the eastern central part of the harbour area and enclose an assemblage of <i>Truncorotalia crassaformis</i>, <i>Globorotalia inflata</i> and <i>Orbulina universa</i>. The three markers of old and recently raised structural blocks in the harbour area are a Lutetian/Bartonian marine terrace in the south west corner, a lower Pliocene shoreline carbonate section in the north east side and a Holocene raised beach of marine conglomerates in the north east corner of the area. The locations of these paleo-shorelines, less than 2 km apart, indicate a progressive platform narrowing of North Beirut since the Paleogene. This study underpins the geological complexity of the region and contributes to understanding the underlying geology, which will be needed for future regional archaeological, hydrocarbon and hydrogeological exploration.</p>","PeriodicalId":75271,"journal":{"name":"UCL open environment","volume":"2 ","pages":"e004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10171424/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9525610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Tectono-stratigraphic correlations between Northern Evvoia, Skopelos and Alonnisos, and the postulated collision of the Pelagonian carbonate platform with the Paikon forearc basin (Pelagonian-Vardar zones, Internal Hellenides, Greece). 北Evvoia、Skopelos和Alonnisos的构造地层对比,以及Pelagonian碳酸盐岩台地与Paikon弧前盆地(Pelagonian- vardar带,希腊内Hellenides)的碰撞。
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000006
Rudolph Scherreiks, Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel
{"title":"Tectono-stratigraphic correlations between Northern Evvoia, Skopelos and Alonnisos, and the postulated collision of the Pelagonian carbonate platform with the Paikon forearc basin (Pelagonian-Vardar zones, Internal Hellenides, Greece).","authors":"Rudolph Scherreiks,&nbsp;Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel","doi":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Pelagonian stratigraphy of the Internal Hellenides consists of a Permo-Triassic basement and an Upper Triassic and Jurassic carbonate platform formation that has been overthrust by the Eohellenic ophiolite sheet during the Early Cretaceous. Intensive erosion, during the Cretaceous, removed most of the ophiolite and parts of the Jurassic formation. It is hypothesised that uplift and erosion of eastern Pelagonia was triggered by the break-off of the subducted oceanic leading edge of the Pelagonian plate. An investigation of the rocks that succeed the erosional unconformity shows that they constitute a shear-zone that is tectonically overlain by Cretaceous platform carbonates. Geochemical analyses of the shear-zone rocks substantiate that they are of mid-oceanic ridge and island arc provenience. Eastern Pelagonia collided with a Cretaceous carbonate platform, probably the Paikon forearc basin, as the Almopias ocean crust subducted beneath that island-arc complex. The Cretaceous platform, together with a substrate of sheared-off ocean floor mélange, overthrust eastern Pelagonia as subduction continued, and the substrate was dynamically metamorphosed into cataclastic rocks, mylonite, phyllonite and interpreted pseudotachylite. This complex of Cretaceous platform rocks and a brittle-ductile shear-zone-substrate constitute the here named Paikon-Palouki nappe, which was emplaced during Early Palaeocene. The Paikon-Palouki nappe did not reach Evvoia. Seismic tomographic models of the Aegean region apparently depict images of two broken-off ocean-plate-slabs, interpreted as Almopias-lithosphere-slabs. It is concluded that the western Almopias slab began to sink during the Early Cretaceous, while the eastern Almopias slab broke off and sank after the Paikon-Palouki nappe was emplaced in the Early Palaeocene.</p>","PeriodicalId":75271,"journal":{"name":"UCL open environment","volume":"2 ","pages":"e006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10171422/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9530817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Reflections on trust and COVID-19: do politics, medicine and the environment need each other? 信任与COVID-19的思考:政治、医学和环境彼此需要吗?
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000010
Alistair Cole, Frederic Dutheil, Julien S Baker
{"title":"Reflections on trust and COVID-19: do politics, medicine and the environment need each other?","authors":"Alistair Cole,&nbsp;Frederic Dutheil,&nbsp;Julien S Baker","doi":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This short article is centred on how trust can be a valuable resource for developing cognate responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the medical and social sciences. Politics and medicine can learn from each other. Governments need to persuade individuals to adapt their behaviours, and such persuasion will be all the more convincing in that it is nested in social networks. Trust in government requires consistent (benevolent, performative and joined-up) explanations. The distinction between hard medical and soft social science blurs when patients/citizens are required to be active participants in combatting a pandemic virus.</p>","PeriodicalId":75271,"journal":{"name":"UCL open environment","volume":"2 ","pages":"e010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208311/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9530816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Economic impact of Ebola virus disease outbreak on an extractive firm: a case study. 埃博拉病毒病爆发对一家采掘公司的经济影响:案例研究。
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000007
Hisham Tariq, David Tresco Emes, Yebeen Ysabelle Boo, Alexander Light, Zia Sadique, Mishal Khan, Alan Knight, Osman Dar, Logan Manikam
{"title":"Economic impact of Ebola virus disease outbreak on an extractive firm: a case study.","authors":"Hisham Tariq,&nbsp;David Tresco Emes,&nbsp;Yebeen Ysabelle Boo,&nbsp;Alexander Light,&nbsp;Zia Sadique,&nbsp;Mishal Khan,&nbsp;Alan Knight,&nbsp;Osman Dar,&nbsp;Logan Manikam","doi":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic was one of the most severe public health emergencies in modern times. The economic impact of epidemics has mostly been analysed at the macroeconomic level. Conversely, we aimed to estimate the economic costs of preventive measures of the epidemic to an extractive firm, ArcelorMittal (AM), using data in the epidemic region from March 2014 to December 2015. AM is the world's largest steel producer and is particularly important in West Africa, where the extractive industry is economically crucial.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Qualitative methods, in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs), were used to investigate the events and channels of impact of the epidemic on the firm, as perceived by employees and contractors. Quantitative data regarding these costs were also collected. Retrospective cost analysis estimated the actual cost of preventive methods adopted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most respondents indicated the largest cost impact was suspension of the Phase II expansion, a series of projects designed to increase iron ore production in Liberia. The next largest cost was the preventive measures adopted to counter disease spread. Total costs incurred for adopting preventive measures were USD 10.58-11.11 million. The overall direct costs of preventive measures adopted within the fence, meaning within the physical boundary of the firm's sites, shared 30-31% of the total costs incurred. The share of external donations supporting humanitarian response was 11-12% of the total costs, followed by 7-12% of relational costs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The firm's response during the EVD epidemic focussed on its employees and operations, which was later expanded to the wider community and then in supporting the international humanitarian response.</p>","PeriodicalId":75271,"journal":{"name":"UCL open environment","volume":"2 ","pages":"e007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208325/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9525609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Normal background levels of air and surface mould reserve in English residential building stock: a preliminary study towards benchmarks based on NAHA measurements. 英国住宅建筑存量空气和表面霉菌储备的正常背景水平:基于NAHA测量的基准的初步研究。
UCL open environment Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000005
Yasemin Didem Aktas, Morten Reeslev, Hector Altamirano, Neil May, Dina D'Ayala
{"title":"Normal background levels of air and surface mould reserve in English residential building stock: a preliminary study towards benchmarks based on NAHA measurements.","authors":"Yasemin Didem Aktas,&nbsp;Morten Reeslev,&nbsp;Hector Altamirano,&nbsp;Neil May,&nbsp;Dina D'Ayala","doi":"10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reports results obtained from a surface (both visually clean and dirty/dusty surfaces) and active (aggressive or activated) air testing scheme on 140 residential rooms in England, without visible water damage or mould growth, along with a few rooms with visible mould growth/water damage tested for comparison purposes. The aim was to establish normal background levels of mould in non-water-damaged interiors to benchmark a 'normal' indoor environment, and in turn when there is a need for further investigation, and, possibly, remediation. Air and surface mould was quantified based on the activity of β-N-acetylhexosaminidase (EC 3.2.1.52; NAHA). The obtained readings showed a log-normal distribution. Ninety-eight percent of the samples obtained from visually clean surfaces were equal to or less than 25 relative fluorescence units (RFU), which is suggested to be the higher bound for the range which can be used as a success criterion for surface cleaning/remediation. Of samples obtained from visually dirty/dusty surfaces, around 98% were below 450 RFU, which is suggested to define the lower-bound for abnormally high levels of mould, rare even on dirty/dusty surfaces. Similarly, around 98% of the air samples were found to have 1700 RFU or below. Values above 1700 RFU are therefore deemed unlikely in a non-problem indoor environment and can be indicative of a possible problem inducing mould growth. The samples with values below 1700 were further divided into three proposed sub-categories. Finally, the obtained RFU values and the suggested benchmarks were compared to those obtained from 17 non-residential indoor environments tested previously in Copenhagen, and the benchmarks that are currently used in Danish national standards, and they were both found to be highly congruent, suggesting that local climate regimes and room functions might not be as influential on indoor mould levels as commonly thought, or that the nuances between England and Denmark in terms of these factors are not strong enough to lead to sizable changes in the typical indoor mould levels in these countries' building stocks.</p>","PeriodicalId":75271,"journal":{"name":"UCL open environment","volume":"2 ","pages":"e005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10171414/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9525613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
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