The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis emanating both from a virus (SARS-CoV-2) and from the drastic actions to contain it. Here, we reflect on the immediate responses of most world powers amid the pandemic chaos: totalitarian surveillance and nationalist isolation. Drawing on published literature, we consider measures such as wildlife-use bans, lockdowns and travel restrictions, along with their reverberations for people, economies and the planet. Our synthesis highlights significant shortfalls of applying command-and-control tactics in emergencies. For one, heavy-handed bans risk enormous unintended consequences and tend to fail if they lack legitimacy or clash with people’s values. Furthermore, reactive and myopic strategies typically view the pandemic as a stand-alone crisis, rather than unravelling the complex interplay of nature-society interactions through which zoonotic diseases originate. A return to adaptive management approaches that recognise root causes and foster socio-ecological resilience will be essential to improve human and planetary health and mitigate future pandemics.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, zoonosis, emerging disease, Adaptive management, Nationalist isolation, Totalitarian surveillance, Wildlife trade, 【초록키워드】 SARS-CoV-2, Resilience, pandemic, adaptive, lockdown, COVID-19 pandemic, risk, virus, Health, Surveillance, management, response, Travel, Isolation, Pandemics, Interaction, measure, complex interplay, zoonotic disease, mitigate, consequence, reactive, highlight, IMPROVE, lack, approach, cause, drastic, Drawing,