Open AccessSocial isolation and air quality impacts: the Rio de Janeiro case study
Author(s) -
Otto Gabriel Fernandes de Oliveira Cavalcante,
Janks Karbdalla Leal de Paiva,
André Haubrichs de Freitas e Silva,
Brenda dos Santos Costa,
Pedro Marques Miguel da Costa,
Marcelo Borges Rocha
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
research, society and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2525-3409
DOI - 10.33448/rsd-v9i10.9317
Subject(s) - air quality index , isolation (microbiology) , air pollutants , period (music) , quality (philosophy) , environmental planning , social isolation , social distance , covid-19 , air pollution , environmental science , political science , geography , psychology , meteorology , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , microbiology and biotechnology , psychotherapist , biology , medicine , physics , disease , pathology , acoustics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Many debates about environmental issues surfaced with the advent of the new coronavirus and social distancing. Therefore, the present article aimed to investigate air quality impacts in Rio de Janeiro, during social isolation period. In order to confirm air pollutants, decrease, for example NO and particulate material, documents such as legislations, technical standards, scientific articles published in this period, were analyzed during the studied period. Furthermore, the article sought to bring awareness about the short temporality of the air quality improvement, since without more sustainable forms of production, in a little while, those pollutants may increase again.