Pandemija koronavirusa COVID-19 i zagađenje životne sredine kao izazov održivosti

Abstract

he coronavirus COVID-19 is present in 213 countries and territories of the world, as well as on 2 international cruisers, thus becoming a global threat to the public health of the population and the sustainability of the entire planet Earth. The impact of the pandemic on sustainable development goals, the worsening of the outcome of the disease due to pollution, as well as the consequent reduction of air pollution due to the inevitable quarantines around the world poses transdisciplinary problems that need to be solved. Therefore, all research in this area represents a small, but necessary step towards elucidating the global and urgent issues posed by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The paper presents a study that included 251 respondents from Serbia with the aim of examining their assessments of the state of environmental pollution, the relationship between pollution and the spread of COVID-19, as well as their view of “life after the corona”. The results of the research were processed using the software package SPSS 22.