Overview
- Highlights the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable waste management and air quality, using case studies
- Discusses the impact of COVID-19 on human health due to external factors like masks and PPEs
- Presents a case study of COVID-19 impact on Triple challenges (COVID-19, CO2 emissions, and public debts) for sustainable development in Germany
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable waste management and air emission, using various case studies. The year 2020 was a historical year mainly due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and it influenced or affected the global economy, business models and the industrial sectors, thus impacting sustainability in various ways. Given that sustainability has many faces and facets, it is worthwhile to deal with the relation (or impact) of COVID-19 on various elements of sustainability. This book presents how COVID-19 has influenced waste management and air quality.
Similar content being viewed by others
Table of contents (8 chapters)
-
Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Ecological Footprint and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decades of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Accessibility Information
Accessibility information for this book is coming soon. We're working to make it available as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: COVID-19
Book Subtitle: Sustainable Waste Management and Air Emission
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3856-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3855-8Published: 28 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3858-9Published: 29 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3856-5Published: 27 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 240
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Pollution, general, Public Health, Ecology