Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Lou, Baowen, Barbieri, Diego Maria, Passavanti, Marco, Hui, Cang, Gupta, Akshay, Hoff, Inge, Lessa, Daniela Antunes, Sikka, Gaurav, Chang, Kevin, Fang, Kevin, Lam, Louisa, Maharaj, Brij, Ghasemi, Navid, Qiao, Yaning, Adomako, Solomon, Foroutan Mirhosseini, Ali, Naik, Bhaven, Banerjee, Arunabha, Wang, Fusong, ... Agarwal, Nithin. (2022). Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ambio. 51(3), pp. 531-545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01574-2
AuthorsLou, Baowen, Barbieri, Diego Maria, Passavanti, Marco, Hui, Cang, Gupta, Akshay, Hoff, Inge, Lessa, Daniela Antunes, Sikka, Gaurav, Chang, Kevin, Fang, Kevin, Lam, Louisa, Maharaj, Brij, Ghasemi, Navid, Qiao, Yaning, Adomako, Solomon, Foroutan Mirhosseini, Ali, Naik, Bhaven, Banerjee, Arunabha, Wang, Fusong, Tucker, Andrew, Liu, Zhuangzhuang, Wijayaratna, Kasun, Naseri, Sahra, Yu, Lei, Chen, Hao, Shu, Benan, Goswami, Shubham, Peprah, Prince, Hessami, Amir, Abbas, Montasir and Agarwal, Nithin
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As largely documented in the literature, the stark restrictions enforced worldwide in 2020 to curb the COVID-19 pandemic also curtailed the production of air pollutants to some extent. This study investigates the perception of the air pollution as assessed by individuals located in ten countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the USA. The perceptions towards air quality were evaluated by employing an online survey administered in May 2020. Participants (N = 9394) in the ten countries expressed their opinions according to a Likert-scale response. A reduction in pollutant concentration was clearly perceived, albeit to a different extent, by all populations. The survey participants located in India and Italy perceived the largest drop in the air pollution concentration; conversely, the smallest variation was perceived among Chinese and Norwegian respondents. Among all the demographic indicators considered, only gender proved to be statistically significant.

Keywordsair quality; COVID-19 pandemic; environmental pollution; pollution perception; psychometric perception
Year2022
JournalAmbio
Journal citation51 (3), pp. 531-545
PublisherSpringer
ISSN0044-7447
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01574-2
PubMed ID34155609
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85123879319
PubMed Central IDPMC8216327
Open accessPublished as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
Page range531-545
FunderNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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Accepted09 May 2021
Deposited10 Aug 2023
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