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What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world
Many urban areas suffer from poor air quality as a consequence of high levels of car-based traffic. Even cities with well-developed multi-modal public transport networks and favourable conditions for alternative transportation, such as Barcelona, experience problems with air pollution. The restricti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508005/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2020.100074 |
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author | Bojovic, D. Benavides, J. Soret, A. |
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description | Many urban areas suffer from poor air quality as a consequence of high levels of car-based traffic. Even cities with well-developed multi-modal public transport networks and favourable conditions for alternative transportation, such as Barcelona, experience problems with air pollution. The restrictions imposed on movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic offer insights into the collective social benefits of reduced traffic. This situation also provided much-needed evidence about teleworking that will indicate whether it could become a mainstream and institutionalised practice in certain professions. In Barcelona, the experience of a less polluted, quieter and more liveable city has inspired both the municipal government and the citizens to rethink the use of public spaces and look for ways to reduce car dependency. We argue that this unprecedented crisis is an opportunity to create a more sustainable future of work and mobility in cities in the post-pandemic world. |
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spelling | pubmed-75080052020-09-23 What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world Bojovic, D. Benavides, J. Soret, A. Earth System Governance Perspective Many urban areas suffer from poor air quality as a consequence of high levels of car-based traffic. Even cities with well-developed multi-modal public transport networks and favourable conditions for alternative transportation, such as Barcelona, experience problems with air pollution. The restrictions imposed on movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic offer insights into the collective social benefits of reduced traffic. This situation also provided much-needed evidence about teleworking that will indicate whether it could become a mainstream and institutionalised practice in certain professions. In Barcelona, the experience of a less polluted, quieter and more liveable city has inspired both the municipal government and the citizens to rethink the use of public spaces and look for ways to reduce car dependency. We argue that this unprecedented crisis is an opportunity to create a more sustainable future of work and mobility in cities in the post-pandemic world. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7508005/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2020.100074 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Bojovic, D. Benavides, J. Soret, A. What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world |
title | What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world |
title_full | What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world |
title_fullStr | What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world |
title_full_unstemmed | What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world |
title_short | What we can learn from birdsong: Mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world |
title_sort | what we can learn from birdsong: mainstreaming teleworking in a post-pandemic world |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508005/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2020.100074 |
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