Environmental impact of the coronavirus

Abstract

The current crisis caused by the coronavirus is having a strong impact on the world both economically and socially. In this challenging situation, individual values, behaviour, attitude have a great impact, either it can influence the further development of the crisis in a positive or even negative direction. During the virus, the main focus is on economic and social issues emphasis, however, in our view, it is also worth considering environmental impacts. The main aim of this study is to examine the positive and negative effects of the coronavirus on our environment sustainability with the help of secondary and primary research methods. In the frame of the primary data collection quantitative standardised questionnaire has been occurred. Based on the results the study covers the decrease and increase of environmental pollution at the personal, household, corporate and institutional level in the period affected by the coronavirus.