COVID-19 and the crisis of national development

Cobus van Staden

doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0852-7

COVID-19 and the crisis of national development

Nat Hum Behav. 2020 May;4(5):443-444. doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0852-7.

Author

Cobus van Staden¹

Affiliation

¹ Senior Researcher, South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa. Cobus.VanStaden@wits.ac.za.

Abstract

The global practice of monetizing ecosystems to further national economic development has laid fertile ground for the COVID-19 pandemic and others like it, writes Cobus van Staden.

MeSH terms

Animals
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Chiroptera
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Coronavirus*
Developing Countries
Ecosystem*
Humans
Mutation
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
Public Health*
SARS-CoV-2
Zoonoses