The COVID-19 Pandemic: Are There Any Impacts on Sustainability?
, A. S. A. Ferdous Alam 2, Walter Leal Filho 3,4, Abd Hair Awang 5 and Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani 2Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript has been improved and It is recommended for publishing in its actual form.
Author Response
- Done Proof Reading
- Improved the English Grammar
- The title changed a bit as
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Are there any Impacts on the Sustainability?
Reviewer 2 Report
I recommend to publish.
Author Response
-Done all of required revisions
- Improved English Grammar & Proof Reading by Native.
- Improved the writings at several points.
- Changed the title as:
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Are there any Impacts on the Sustainability?
Reviewer 3 Report
I can accept this submission as a review paper not as a research paper.
Author Response
-Done all of required revisions
- Improved English Grammar & Proof Reading by Native.
- I improved the writing at several points.
- changed the title to:
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Are there any impacts on sustainability?
This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
1.This paper sets out to explain and describe the potential ways to control COVID-19’s impact on the environment and what controllable strategies, anticipations emerge from rethinking sustainable productions. The study suggested the current options of sustainable productions must be measured, however, be further researched.
2. Seemingly an inductive study, however, no conclusive study results were presented in the paper.
3. The authors spent substantial portion of the article on the pathological, pharmacological and epidemic side of covid-19 rather than to the environmental and socio-economic side of the pandemic.
4. How the secondary research questions in Table 1, methodological step, were developed require further justification.
5.'Unlike other sick-55 nesses and their outcomes, COVID-19 is likely to continue well into the future as no vaccine has yet been discovered and it may worsen other infectious ailments worldwide' ?? We do have vaccines already.
Reviewer 2 Report
Impacts of COVID-19 on different aspects of human life is more than actual.
In the article authors reviewed impact of COVID-19 on ecology and health are investigated. Authors found, in particular, that 'decisions of global health policy, the increasing number of lockdown days, and foreign travel limitations negatively impacted the general environment, socioeconomic activities, and the opening, lowest and maximum prices, and output of main industrial sustainability indices'.
The article has its limitations, of course. The main is that the article has mostly discriptive character - the pictures are very nice, but economic calculations are missed.
Other researchers have found that lockdown influenced positevely on environment, but i didn't see the analysis of such articles and why their results contradicted the author's results.
The paper is quite well-written, but i'm not the English-speaker so this question would be better addressed to English-native experts.
Reviewer 3 Report
This paper is a report, without any real original research and methodology. A good overview and table, but not a scientific research paper.
Reviewer 4 Report
The paper addressed the important and actual issue of the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on environment, socio-economy and sustainable production. The main research questions have been related to the potential global impacts on the environment caused by the Covid 19 and the possible controllable strategies and anticipations that would emerge from rethinking sustainable productions. The paper is well written, based on adequate and clearly described methodology. The presented data and the discussion leed to the conclusions that underpin various problems that arose during pandemic reality and suggest potential solutions and actions to be undertaken. While some of the questions related to Covid-19 would still remain open for obvious reasons, the paper brings new value to the state of the knowledge and I can recommend publishing.
