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ArticleEnvironment, development and sustainability2021

Significant impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in Kolkata (India) and amelioration of environmental health.

Biswajit Bera, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Pravat Kumar Shit, Nairita Sengupta, Soumik Saha

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Article in Environment, development and sustainability, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Air Quality: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  2. Investigating Patterns of Air Pollution in Metropolises Using Remote Sensing and Neural Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Advances in space research : the official journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) · 2023
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  7. Consequences of pre and post confinement on the atmospheric air pollutants during spread of COVID-19 in India.Indian journal of physics and proceedings of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (2004) · 2023
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  20. Strict lockdown measures reduced PMSustainable water resources management · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Biswajit BeraSidho-Kanho-Birsha University, P.O. Purulia, Ranchi Road, Purulia, West Bengal 723104 India.ORCID 0000-0002-0957-8023
Sumana BhattacharjeeDepartment of Geography, University of Calcutta (Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College), 30, Prince Anwar Shah Road, Kolkata, 700 033 India.
Pravat Kumar ShitDepartment of Geography, Raja Narendralal Khan Women's College, Gope Palace, P.O. Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur, Phulpahari, West Bengal 721102 India.ORCID 0000-0001-5834-0495
Nairita SenguptaDepartment of Geography, Diamond Harbour Women's University, Sarisha, West Bengal 743368 India.ORCID 0000-0002-4887-4191
Soumik SahaIndependent Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal 700019 India.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fatal novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic disease smashes the normal tempo of global socio-economic and cultural livelihood. Most of the countries impose a lockdown system with social distancing measures to arrest the rapid transmission of this virus into the human body. The objective of this study is to examine the status of air quality during and pre-COVID-19 lockdown and to recommend some long-term sustainable environmental management plan. The pollution data like PM

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PMCPMC7384893

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