Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Environment and Human Behaviour

lt;p> Prof. Rais Akhtar is Adjunct Faculty and CO-P.I. on the Department of Science and Technology (Government of India) Project on climate change and health, at the International Institute of Health Management and Research, New Delhi.

He has published more than 18 books and numerous articles on medical geography and climate change and health. Prof. Akhtar delivered lectures at a number of medical institutes including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Johns' Hopkins University School of Public Health and the Institute of Public Health, University of Pisa.

He has also received numerous international fellowships, including Leverhulme and Henry Chapman fellowships of the University of Liverpool and the University of London, respectively, and the Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Nanterre. Prof. Rais Akhtar was elected Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, London, and Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, Brussels. Prof. Akhtar was the lead author of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prof. Akhtar received Nobel Prize Memento after IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.

Section I Introductory.- Chapter 1: Coronavirus, Environment and Human Behaviour.- Chapter 2: Coping During Covid-19 Public Health Crisis.- Section II Australasia.- 3.Epidemiological history and the COVID-19 outbreak in the Pacific Islands - Does knowledge of the history help to fight epidemics?.- 4.Public health policy responses and human behavioural adaptations to COVID-19 in Taiwan.- 5.Healthcare resources in the context of COVID-19 outbreak-Thailand, 2020.- 6.How Malaysia counters coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Challenges and Recommendations.- 7.COVID-19 in Indonesia:Geoecology and People's Behaviour.- 8.Does socioeconomic status matter? A Study on the Spatial Patterns of COVID-19 in South Korea and Hong Kong..- 9.Changing lives of migrants in post- covid period: A study of mobile vendors in Mumbai.- 10.Beating back COVID-19 in Mumbai, India.- 11.COVID-19: the Australian experience.- Section III Europe, Russia.- 12.Coronavirus (COVID-19): the revenche of the countryside in France.- 13.COVID-19 in Italy: Health, socio- economic consequences and relationship with the European Union.- 14.COVID-19 Epidemia in Italy Has Association with Air Pollution.- 15.United Kingdom: An anatomy of a public policy failure.- 16.COVID-19 spread in the Iberian Peninsula: The influence of socioeconomic conditions.- 17.COVID- 19 in Russia: the distribution and medical geographical modelling.- Covid-19 in South Africa: A Crisis on a Crisis on a crisis.- 19.Geographical Dynamics of COVID-19 in Nigeria.- Section IV Americas.- 20.COVID-19 in Mexico: Differentiated Impacts in Territories and Income Groups.- 21.Expansion of the Disease by Coronavirus(COVID-19) in Argentina:Social,Economic and Environmental Implications in the Country.- 22.Outlining regional scenarios during the Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil.- 23.Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Perú: Geographical Distribution, Economic Impact and Vulnerable Populations .- 24.The Spread of COVID-19 in Canada and its Environmental and Economic Impacts.- 25.Public Health Crisis Health disparities: health equity and COVID-19 Pandemic in USA.- 26. Geographic Patterns of the Pandemic in the Pandemic in the United States: Covid-19  Response Within a Disunified Federal System.- 27.Conclusion & Suggestions.