TY - BOOK ID - 135832483 TI - Life in the Time of a Pandemic : Social, Economic, Health and Environmental Impacts of COVID-19-Systems Approach Study AU - Sahin, Oz AU - Richards, Russell PY - 2022 PB - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - COVID-19 KW - pandemic KW - wicked problem KW - systems approach KW - leverage points KW - Bayesian Networks KW - system thinking KW - mathematical epidemiology KW - SIR-type model KW - model parameter estimation KW - non-pharmaceutical intervention KW - dynamical systems KW - COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 KW - computational cognitive science KW - semantic networks KW - text mining KW - social media mining KW - emotions KW - tour and traveling KW - digitalization shift KW - change readiness KW - expanded TOPSIS KW - UK KW - vaccination KW - immunity KW - policy KW - system dynamics KW - modelling KW - uncertainty KW - branded content KW - marketing KW - total interpretive structural modelling KW - decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory KW - causal loop diagram KW - systems thinking KW - network theory KW - complexity economics KW - economic crisis KW - agent-based model KW - information theory KW - global value chains KW - megaprojects KW - housing markets KW - economic networks KW - n/a UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135832483 AB - It has been confirmed that the number of cases and the death toll of COVID-19 are continuing to rise in many countries around the globe. Governments around the world have been struggling with containing and reducing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19; however, their respective responses have not been consistent. Aggressive measures imposed by some governments have resulted in a complete lockdown that has disrupted all facets of life and poses massive health, social, and financial impacts. Other countries, however, are taking a more wait-and-see approach in an attempt to maintain business as usual. Collectively, these challenges reflect a super wicked problem that places immense pressure on economies and societies and requires the strategic management of health systems to avoid overwhelming them—this has been linked to the public mantra of ‘flattening the curve’, which acknowledges that while the pandemic cannot be stopped, its impact can be regulated so that the number of cases at any given time is not beyond the capacity of the health system. Dynamic simulation modelling is a framework that facilitates the understanding/exploring of complex problems, of searching for and finding the best option(s) from all practical solutions where time dynamics are essential. The papers in this book provide research insights into this super wicked problem and case studies exploring the interactions between social, economic, environmental, and health factors through the use of a systems approach. ER -