What will tomorrow be like? The post-pandemic world

Authors

  • Mariana Guenther Universidade de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34024/revbea.2020.v15.10766

Keywords:

COVID-19, Environment, Education, Science, Impacts

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to rethink many of our habits and behaviors, made us reinvent ways of connecting to the world, and brought us important reflections on what really matters to our lives and the results of our actions towards the environment. In this article I discuss how environmental impacts are related to the emergence of diseases, analyze the effects of social isolation on the environment, and propose some changes that we can put into practice in the future, given all the reflections imposed by this moment. Environmental education has a fundamental role in this process of think and act, and will be our greatest ally during the next decade.

Author Biography

  • Mariana Guenther, Universidade de Pernambuco

    Bióloga pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Mestre em Ecologia pela UFRJ, Doutora em Ciências – Oceanografia Biológica pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Professora Adjunta do Instituto de Ciências Biológicas da Universidade de Pernambuco e Coordenadora do Núcleo de Pesquisas em Educação Ambiental e Científica (NUPEAC).

    Mais informações: Curriculo Lattes (link: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6562095215127779)

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2020-07-28

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Vol. 15 No. 4 (2020): Edição Especial: EA e COVID-9

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GUENTHER, Mariana. What will tomorrow be like? The post-pandemic world. Brazilian Journal of Environmental Education, [S. l.], v. 15, n. 4, p. 31–44, 2020. DOI: 10.34024/revbea.2020.v15.10766. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/revbea/article/view/10766. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.
Received 2020-06-26
Accepted 2020-07-26
Published 2020-07-28